Atoms held together by sharing electrons are joined by this.
What is a covalent bond?
100
In forming covalent bonds, electron sharing occurs so that atoms attain this.
What is full valence shells or electron configurations of noble gases?
100
A covalent bond in which one atom contributes both bonding electrons is known as this.
What is a coordinate covalent bond?
100
The bond that occurs when atoms in the covalent bond pull equally on bonding electrons resulting in equal sharing is known as this.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
100
The bent shape of a water molecule is due to this.
What are the two pairs of unshared electrons on oxygen?
200
A neutral group of atoms joined together by covalent bonds is known as this.
What is a molecule?
200
A covalent bond between two atoms containing only 2 electrons is known as this.
What is a single covalent bond?
200
A tightly bound group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge and behaves as a unit is known as this.
What is a polyatomic ion?
200
A covalent bond between atoms in which the electrons are shared unequally are known as this.
What are polar covalent bonds?
200
NH4+ is an example of this.
What is a polyatomic ion?
300
A compound composed of molecules is known as this.
What is a molecular compound?
300
A pair of valence electrons not shared between atoms is known as this.
What is an unshared pair?
300
The energy required to break the bond between two covalently bonded atoms is known as this.
What is bond disassociation energy?
300
The two weakest attractions between molecules are collectively known as this.
What are van der Waals forces?
300
A structure that occurs when it is possible to draw two or more valid electron dot structures that have the same number of electron pairs for a molecule or ion is known as this.
What are resonance structures?
400
Compared to ionic compounds, molecular compounds tend to have lower these.
What are melting and boiling points?
400
A bond that involves two shared pairs of electrons is known as this.
What is a double covalent bond?
400
Bond disassociation energies increase with this.
What is the number of covalent bonds between two atoms?
400
Attractive forces in which hydrogen covalently bonded to a very electronegative atom is also weakly bonded to an unshared electron pair of another electronegative atom are known as this.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
The very high bond dissociation energy of nitrogen gas (N2) can be explained by this.
What are triple covalent bonds between nitrogen atoms?
500
This shows how many atoms of each element contains.
What is a molecular formula?
500
A bond formed by sharing three pairs of electrons is known as this.
What is a triple covalent bond?
500
The molecular orbital that can be occupied by two electrons of a covalent bond is known as this.
What is a bonding orbital?
500
Solids in which all of the atoms are covalently bonded are known as this.
What are network solids?
500
Microwaves take advantage of this property of water in order to work.