Bonding Types
This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
The total number of valence electrons in a molecule of H2O.
What is 8?
The molecular shape of CH4.
What is tetrahedral?
The formula for sodium chloride.
What is NaCl?
This type of reaction involves the exchange of ions between two compounds.
What is a double displacement reaction?
This bond occurs when one atom donates an electron to another atom.
What is an ionic bond?
The Lewis structure for this molecule includes a double bond between carbon and oxygen.
What is CO2?
Definition of molecular geometry.
What is a shape of the molecule that has bond lengths, bond angles, and torsional angles?
The name for H2SO4.
What is sulfuric acid?
A reaction where a single compound breaks down into two or more elements or new compounds.
What is a decomposition reaction?
This type of bonding is found in metals, where electrons are free to move throughout the structure.
What is metallic bonding?
This rule states that atoms tend to form bonds until they are surrounded by eight valence electrons.
What is the octet rule?
The shape of a molecule with three bonding pairs and one lone pair on the central atom.
What is trigonal pyramidal?
The chemical formula for dinitrogen pentoxide.
What is N2O5?
This type of reaction involves one element replacing another in a compound.
What is a single displacement reaction?
Bonds between hydrogen and a highly electronegative atom like oxygen or nitrogen.
What is a hydrogen bond?
The central atom in the Lewis structure of NH3.
What is nitrogen?
The electronic geometry of SF6.
What is octahedral?
The name for the compound with the formula K2CO3.
What is potassium carbonate?
The type of reaction where oxygen combines with another substance and releases energy in the form of light or heat.
What is a combustion reaction?
The weakest type of intermolecular force, found in all molecular substances.
What are London dispersion forces?
The type of bond between carbon atoms in C2H4.
What is a double bond?
The molecular geometry of CO3^2-.
What is trigonal planar?
The formula for ammonium sulfate.
What is (NH4)2SO4?
The term for a reaction where electrons are transferred between reactants.
What is a redox reaction?