Going Nuclear
These are the two subatomic particles that have mass
What are protons and neutrons?
An attraction between two atoms that have opposite electric charges
What are ionic bonds?
This kind of subatomic particle has a charge of -1
What is an electron?
The shape of an atom's bonding angles when it is sharing four single bonds
What is tetrahedral?
The kind of electric charge found on atoms because they are participating in polar covalent bonds; e.g. both the oxygen and the hydrogens in a water molecule have ________ charges
What is a partial charge?
The property of an atom that is defined by how many protons it has
What is the atomic number?
or
What is the element an atom is?
This is the description of a covalent bond
What are attractions between atoms that are sharing electrons?
This property of an electron is so small that it is effectively zero, especially when comparing to the other subatomic particles
What is the mass of an electron?
The shape of an atom's bonding angles, when it is sharing two double bonds (e.g. Carbon in CO2)
What is linear?
This is energy that is stored up, not in use at the moment
What is potential energy?
This subatomic particle has an electric charge of zero
What is a neutron?
The weakest type of "bond," these attractions can occur between any two atoms (charged or not), because of brief moments when electrons happen to be more concentrated on one side of the atom or the other.
What are Van der Waal's forces?
The concept of electrons spending most of their time in a fuzzily-defined space around the nucleus of an atom.
What is the electron cloud?
The shape of an atom's bonding angles that is sharing two single bonds and a double bond
What is trigonal planar?
The event that occurs when an atom splits apart because it has a unstable nuclear configuration
What is radioactive decay?
This is the formula by which you would find an atom's mass
What is the sum of protons and neutrons?
The type of bond that forms between oxygen and hydrogen atoms of DIFFERENT water molecules
What is a hydrogen bond?
The outermost electron shell of an atom's electron cloud
What is the valence shell?
A molecule (or class of molecules) that mimics the molecular shape of endorphins, alleviating pain
What is morphine?
or
What are opioids?
The electric charge of a calcium ion after it has lost the electron or electrons that would have been in its valence shell in its metallic form
What is +2?
This is what we call two atoms of the same element, but which have different numbers of neutrons
What are isotopes?
Because they have similar electronegativites, Carbon and Hydrogen would share this kind of covalent bond
What is a non-polar covalent bond?
This is the energy level where a given electron normally exists, not when it has "jumped" out to a position farther away from the nucleus
What is the ground state?
This is what the Function of a molecule or structure is related to
What is its structure?
The number of neutrons in the average Beryllium atom
What is 5?