Bonding
One atom taking one or more electrons from another atom completely, creating two charged ions that stick together like magnets.
What is an ionic bond?
A chemical that will release ions in water and cause that water to be able to carry an electric current.
What is an electrolyte?
Simple chemicals reacting together to create a larger, more complex chemical structure.
What is a synthesis reaction?
Why oil and water don't mix.
What is water's polar molecules and lipids' non-polar molecules?
A non-polar molecule with long hydrocarbon chains that can either be completely saturated with hydrogen atoms or contain some double bonds between carbon atoms.
What is a lipid?
Two or more atoms sharing electrons equally between their electron rings.
What is a covalent bond?
An electrolyte that will break apart in water to release H+ ions.
What is an acid?
A larger, more complex chemical structure being broken down into its component parts.
What is a decomposition reaction?
Why ice floats on water.
What is polar water molecules spreading out to maximize hydrogen bonds as they slow down?
A molecule that often forms carbon-oxygen "rings" that can stick together and can be used by the human body for energy.
What is a carbohydrate?
Two or more atoms sharing electrons UNEQUALLY between their electron rings.
What is a polar bond?
An electrolyte that will break apart in water and release ions that will REACT with H+ ions (ex: OH- ions)
What is a base?
Two chemicals breaking bonds within themselves and creating new bonds with pieces of the other chemical (like two people with the same size feet swapping left shoes).
What is an exchange reaction?
Water molecules sticking to other objects (such as the meniscus in a measuring cup).
What is adhesion?
A very large, very complex macromolecule that carries information about building proteins.
What is a nucleic acid?
A weak, magnetic bond that comes from charged ends of molecules being exposed to each other that is vital both in the behavior of water and in the shape of proteins.
What is a hydrogen bond?
An electrolyte formed by the reaction of an acid and a base.
What is a salt?
A reaction whose products can break back down into reactants again.
What is a reversible reaction?
Water molecules sticking to each other enough to create weak structural integrity (such as a water drop on a tabletop or surface tension on a body of water).
What is cohesion?
A macromolecule that can be either very small and simple or large and astoundingly complex with 4 levels of structure whose structure is both extremely vital to its job and very susceptible to damage from heat.
What is a protein?
A scale for measuring H+ ion concentration in chemicals where each number represents a 10x change that ranges from 0-14.
What is the pH scale?