Name: Alaniz Enriquez

Date: 10/08/14

Periodic-als Covalent Compound

Covalent Compound Selected: Nitrous Oxide
Why did you select this Covalent Compound? Is it Polar or Non-polar Covalent?: There
is no particular reason why I choose Nitrous Oxide other than the fact that its very
commonly known. nitrous Oxide is a polar covalent.
How is this Covalent Compound important/relevant to your life?: One day in the future I
might have to have my wisdom teeth taken out and nitrous oxide will be used.

Facts on the Covalent Compound

Source 1 Title: http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/n2o/n2oh.htm
MLA Citation: "Nitrous Oxide -." Nitrous Oxide. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.
<http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/n2o/n2oh.htm >.
1. nitrogen and oxygen
2. colorless, sweet smelling gas
3. used as anesthetics during dental procedures or surgeries
4. first discovered in 1722 by english scientist Joseph Priestley
5. is made by heating ammonium nitrate in the existence of iron filings, then passing
the gas that came off through water to remove toxic by-product
6. was discovered to be an anesthetics in 1840
7. when N
2
O is at room temperature it is unreactive with most alkali metals and
halogens

8. sometimes used as a propellant in aerosol cars in place of the usual CFCs which
causes damages to the ozone layer, provided a boost the the car
9. commonly referred to as laughing gas due to the fact that once inhaled in causes
euphoria
10. over exposure through inhalation may cause asphyxiation, same way as over
exposure of helium cause asphyxiation


Facts on the first NONMETAL in your Compound

Source 2 Title: http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/7/nitrogen
MLA Citation: "Nitrogen." - Element Information, Properties and Uses. N.p., n.d. Web.
08 Oct. 2014. <http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/7/nitrogen >.
1. group 5 period 2
2. melting point -346F boiling point -320.431F
3. colorless odorless gas that makes ups 78% of the air
4. five electrons in outer shell
5. cycled naturally by living organisms, taken up by green plants and algae as nitrate
to construct based needed to make dna and rna
6. nitrogen compound are vital components in foods, fertilizers and explosives
7. when heated it combines directly with magnesium, lithium, or calcium
8. discovered by David Rutherford in 1722
9. biggest use is for the product of ammonia NH
3

10. mainly found in the air












Facts on the second NONMETAL in your Compound

Source 2 Title: http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/8/oxygen
MLA Citation: "Oxygen." - Element Information, Properties and Uses. N.p., n.d. Web.
08 Oct. 2014. <http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/8/oxygen >.
1. group 6 period 2
2. melting point -361.822
o
F boiling point -297.332
o
F
3. the air we breath
4. colorless odorless gas
5. oxygen does not burn
6. oxygen is about two times more soluble in water than nitrogen is
7. oxygen is unstable in our planets atmosphere, must be constantly refilled by
photosynthesis in green plants. Without life, our atmosphere would contain almost
no oxygen
8. almost 2/3 of the weight of living things comes from oxygen
9. 88.9 percent of waters weight comes from oxygen
10. northern lights are caused by oxygen atoms