A Household Name
Bent Out of Shape
Polar Opposites
In Theory
Law of Attraction
100
The chemical name for water.
What is dihydrogen monoxide?
100
Two atoms covalently bonded always have this shape.
What is linear?
100
An equal sharing of electrons.
What is nonpolar covalent bond?
100
The theory used to describe a molecule's shape.
What is VSEPR?
100
Oil and water do not mix because of this saying.
What is 'like dissolves like'?
200
SF6 is a chemical is a compound that deepens your voice when inhaled, opposite of helium.
What is the sulfur hexafluoride?
200
Water, despite only having two bonds, has this shape.
What is bent?
200
Polar bonds result from this.
What is unequal sharing of electrons?
200
VSEPR is based on this.
What is repulsion of electron pairs?
200
This mathematics strategy can be used to determine the polarity of a molecule.
What is checking for symmetry?
300
A potent greenhouse gas implicated for global warming.
What is carbon dioxide or CO2?
300
Methane, CH4, is a four-sided molecule and has this shape.
What is tetrahedral?
300
Electron distribution, or spacing in a molecule, is determined by this difference.
What is electronegativity?
300
VSEPR shapes are determined according to this atom.
What is central atom?
300
The intermolecular force holding together two polar molecules.
What is dipole interaction?
400
Commonly referred to as the silent killer and is a main component of car exhaust.
What is CO or carbon mooxide?
400
For molecules with only three bond pairs and no lone pairs, they are flat and three sided.
What is trigonal planar?
400
Extreme differences in electronegativity create this kind of bond.
What is ionic bond?
400
A Lewis structure must be drawn before predicting a molecule's shape in order to determine these.
What is bonding pairs and lone pairs?
400
Hydrogen atoms bonded to these three atoms are attracted to lone pair electrons of other polar molecules.
What is nitrogen (N), fluorine (F), and oxygen (O)?
500
NH3 is a common chemical solvent found in your home.
What is ammonia?
500
To find a molecule's shape, you first draw the Lewis structure and look at this.
What are regions of electron density?
500
Looking at electron density maps and a molecule's structure, hydrogen atoms typically appear to have this partial charge.
What is partial positive?
500
A molecule can have specific shapes based on these two geometries of VSEPR.
What is electron pair geometry and molecular geometry?
500
This force occurs when when a nonpolar molecule's electrons push another nonpolar molecule's electrons away, thus creating induced dipoles.
What is dispersion force?
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