🧬 Chemical Vocabulary
A force of attraction between atoms due to sharing or transferring electrons.
What is a chemical bond?
The force that causes water to form a rounded bead.
What is surface tension?
Type of bond formed when atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
The most stable electron configuration for atoms.
What is a full set of electrons in the highest energy level?
Substances that undergo a chemical change.
What are reactants?
The reason water can dissolve salt.
What is polarity?
Type of bond formed when electrons are transferred between atoms.
What is an ionic bond?
The large number in front of a molecule in a chemical equation.
What is a coefficient?
New substances formed as a result of a chemical change.
What are products?
The reason ice floats on water.
What is lower density of ice?
Type of bond formed between molecules like water.
What is a hydrogen bond?
The reason vinegar can’t dissolve olive oil.
What is polarity mismatch?
A molecule with slight positive and negative charges due to uneven electron sharing.
What is a polar molecule?
The force that causes water molecules to stick to each other.
What is cohesion?
A bond where atoms share two pairs of electrons.
What is a double bond?
The result of potassium transferring an electron to fluorine.
What is potassium fluoride with opposite charges?
An atom or group of atoms with a positive or negative charge.
What is an ion?
The force that causes water to stick to other substances.
What is adhesion?
A bond where atoms share three pairs of electrons.
What is a triple bond?
The balanced equation for 2 carbon atoms reacting with oxygen to form carbon monoxide.
What is 2C + O₂ → 2CO?