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Chemistry Chapter 6

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is a mutual electrical attraction between the nuclei and valence electrons of different atoms that binds the atoms together.
chemical bond
chemical bonding that results from the electrical attraction between large numbers of cations and anions
ionic bonding
results from teh sharing ot electron pairs between two atoms
covalent bonding
a covalent bond in which the bonding electrons are shared equally by the bonded atoms, resulting in a blanced dirstribution of electrical charge
nonpolar covalent bond
meaning that they have an uneven distribution of charge.
polar covalent bond
a neutral group of atoms that are held together by covalent bonds
molecule
chemical compund whose simplest units are molecules
molecular compound
indicates the relative numbers of atoms of each kind in a chemical compund by using atomic symbols and numerical subscripts
chemical formula
shows the types and numbers of atoms combined in a single molecule of a molecular compund
molecular formula
a molecule containing only two atoms
diatomic molecule
the distance between two bonded atoms at their minimum potential energy that is teh average distance between two bonded atoms
bond length
the engergy required to break a chemical bond and form neutral isolated atoms
bond energy
chemical compounds tend to form so that each atom, by gaining,losing, or sharing electrons, has an _______ of electrons in its highest occupied energy level
octet rule
an electron configuration notation in which only the valence electrons of an atom of a particular element are shown, indicated by dots placed around the elements symbol
electron dot notation
a pair of electrons that is not involved in bonding and that belongs exclusively to one atom
unshared pair or lone pair
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