chemical bonding definitions Flashcards
(7 cards)
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compounds
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compounds are substances which are made up of two or more different elements chemically combined
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molecules
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molecules are substances which are made up of two or more of the same element chemically combined
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ionic bond
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an ionic bond is the force of attraction between oppositely charged ions
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covalent bonding
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covalent bonding is the sharing of electrons
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sigma bond
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a sigma bond is a head-on-head overlap of s and/or p-orbitals
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pi bond
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a pi bond is a side-on-side overlap of p-orbitals only
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electronegativity
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electronegativity is defined as the relative attraction an atom in a molecule has for the shared pairs of electrons in a covalent bond
