Vocabulary
The electrons that reside in the outermost energy shell, responsible for bonding.
What are valence electrons?
What does VSEPR stand for?
What is Valence shell electron pair repulsion?
The ability of a material to let heat pass through it.
What is thermal conductivity?
A chemical bond where electrons are shared between 2 or more atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
What chemical bond uses prefixes in naming?
What is covalent?
A type of bond that involves the transfer of electrons between a metal and a non-metal.
What is an ionic bond/compound?
Draw the dot structure for carbon dioxide (CO2) and identify the VSEPR shape.
What is linear?
The ability of a material to conduct an electrical current.
What is electrical conductivity?
A chemical bond that involves only non-metals.
What is a covalent bond?
What is the name for NO2
What is nitrogen dioxide?
The property a metal has to bend or change shape without cracking or breaking.
What is malleability?
Draw the dot structure for boron trifluoride (BF3) and identify the VSEPR shape.
What is trigonal planar?
The ability or a metal to be stretched out into a wire.
What is ductility?
Identify the formula as ionic or covalent.
CCl4
What is a covalent compound?
Name the formula:
MgCl2
What is magnesium chloride?
The chemical formula for a molecule in the simplest, whole number ratio. May or may not be the actual chemical formula.
What is an empirical formula?
Draw the bond for carbon tetrafluoride (CF4) and identify the VSEPR shape.
What is tetrahedral?
A mixture of 2 or more metals to achieve a more durable, stronger material.
What is an alloy?
Identify the formula as covalent or ionic.
K2O
What is ionic?
When naming ionic compounds, use roman numerals for ________________ metals that make multiple ions.
What is transition metals?
A rule that describes how atoms will gain, lose or share electrons to become stable and have the electron configuration of a noble gas.
What is the octet rule?
Draw the bond for a water molecule (H2O) and identify the VSEPR shape.
What is bent?
The term to explain how electrons are delocalized (free to move), and responsible for the properties in metallic bonds.
List an element found in the 3p orbital.
What is aluminum, silicon, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine or argon?
Name the compound:
SF6
What is sulfur hexafluoride?