- Successive ionisation data can be used to:
- Predict or confirm the simple electronic configuration of elements
- Confirm the number of electrons in the outer shell of an element
- Deduce the group an element belongs to in the Periodic Table
- By analysing where the large jumps appear and the number of electrons removed when these large jumps occur, the electron configuration of an atom can be determined
- Na, Mg and Al will be used as examples to deduce the electronic configuration and positions of elements in the Periodic Table using their successive ionisation energies