Bonding Basics
This type of bond involves a metal and a nonmetal.
What is an ionic bond?
In an ionic bond, electrons are doing this from one atom to another.
What is transferring?
This is the name for the ionic compound made from Sodium (Na) and Chlorine (Cl)
What is Sodium Chloride?
This common table salt is held together by an ionic bond.
What is sodium chloride (NaCl)?
This type of chemical bond is found specifically in metals, like copper, iron, and gold.
What is a metallic bond?
This type of bond involves two or more nonmetals sharing electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
In a covalent bond, electrons are doing this between atoms.
What is sharing?
The chemical formula for the ionic compound formed when Calcium bonds with Oxygen.
What is CaO?
The water molecule, H₂O, is a classic example of this type of bond where electrons are shared.
What is a covalent bond?
In metallic bonding, atoms lose their valence electrons to form a "sea" of these freely moving particles.
What are electrons?
This is the term for an atom with a net electric charge due to gaining or losing electrons.
What is an ion?
This is an electron in the outermost shell of an atom.
What is a valence electron?
This is the name for the covalent molecule with the formula CO₂.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the gas you breathe in, and it's formed by a covalent bond between two ........ atoms.
O₂, oxygen
This useful property of metals, allowed by the "sea of electrons," means they can be hammered into thin sheets.
What is malleability?
This rule states that atoms tend to gain, lose, or share electrons to achieve a full set of eight valence electrons.
What is the Octet Rule?
This diagram uses dots to represent valence electrons and is useful for visualizing bonding
What is a Lewis Dot Structure?
The name for the compound with the formula MgCl₂.
What is Magnesium Chloride?
Rust, which forms on iron, is an ionic compound known as Iron Oxide. Why?
What is
'Its bond is formed because oxygen gains and iron loses electrons.'?
This property, why metals are used for wiring, allows electricity to flow easily.
What is electrical conductivity?
This is the charge of an ion that a Group 2 element (like Calcium) will typically form.
What is 2+?
In a molecule of O₂, the two oxygen atoms share two pairs of electrons, forming this specific kind of covalent bond.
What is a double bond?
This is the chemical formula for a molecule made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
What is H₂O?
The gas you exhale is a covalent compound. Its name comes from the one ...... atom and two ....... atoms.
What is 'CO₂, carbon, oxygen'?
Metals are able to be pulled into wires because of this property, closely related to malleability.
What is ductility?