What’s on the Periodic Trends poster
A 5-row table: Trend · Across → · Down ↓.
Direction across a period and down a group.
- Atomic radius — Decreases — Increases
- Ionisation energy — Increases — Decreases
- Electronegativity — Increases — Decreases
- Metallic character — Decreases — Increases
- Electron affinity — Increases — Decreases
Across a period the nuclear charge rises while shielding stays roughly constant, so electrons are pulled in more tightly.
Questions about the Periodic Trends poster
- What’s on the Periodic Trends (General chemistry) poster?
- A 5-row table: Trend · Across → · Down ↓. Direction across a period and down a group. Atomic radius — Decreases — Increases; Ionisation energy — Increases — Decreases; Electronegativity — Increases — Decreases; Metallic character — Decreases — Increases; Electron affinity — Increases — Decreases. Across a period the nuclear charge rises while shielding stays roughly constant, so electrons are pulled in more tightly.
- Who is the Periodic Trends (General chemistry) poster for?
- Periodic Trends (General chemistry) belongs to the Chemistry section rather than to a school year, because physical science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning general chemistry can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Periodic Trends (General chemistry) poster?
- Nuclear charge, shielding and distance. Every trend follows from those three. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Periodic Trends (General chemistry) belongs on the wall where that physical science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Periodic Trends (General chemistry)?
- Acids & Bases, Atomic Structure and Balancing Equations sit alongside Periodic Trends (General chemistry) in the Chemistry section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Acids & BasesAtomic StructureBalancing Equations
- Is the Periodic Trends (General chemistry) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Periodic Trends (General chemistry) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chemistry section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Periodic Trends (General chemistry) poster print at?
- Periodic Trends (General chemistry) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Periodic Trends (General chemistry) loses nothing.Printing guide
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