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Write down the formulae of aluminium chloride.

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Hint: By finding the charge on aluminium and chloride and then making the valence criss-cross structure of it we will get our formula. Aluminium chloride has one Al atom and three Cl atoms, it is as a Ionic compound as the Al electron is passed to three atoms of Cl.

Complete step by step answer:
First let’s see what are the symbols for the Aluminium and Chloride which are Al for Aluminium and Cl for Chloride.
Now coming to the term ions where it is of two types positive and negative known as cation and anion.
Here Aluminium has3 positive charge because aluminium has three valence electron so it tend to lose electrons then after losing these 3 electrons it has 10 electrons and 13 protons and these 10 electrons are neutralized by10protons and out of 13 protons so we get 3 positive charge because of excess three protons in it and when we talk about Chloride which has 1 negative charge because here it is more energy-efficient and easy for chlorine to gain1 electron than to lose seven electron so it tend to gain an electron to create an ion with 17 protons, 17 neutrons and 18 electrons, which give it a net negative charge of 1 which is also referred as the chloride ion.
Now doing valence criss-cross we get it as
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By which we get the formula for Aluminium Chloride as AlCl3.

Note: -The criss-cross method is an alternative way to write the chemical formula in which the numeric value of each of the ion charges is crossed over to make the subscript of the other ion, the important point in it is that the signs of the charge like negative and positive are dropped.
-It is white, but iron trichloride is also polluted by samples, giving it a yellow colour. There is a low melting and boiling point of the solid.
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