Bonding Types
This type of bond involves the sharing of electrons between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
In a Lewis structure, dots represent these particles.
What are electrons?
This molecular shape occurs in a molecule with four bonded pairs and no lone pairs.
What is a tetrahedral shape?
This type of covalent bond shares electrons unequally between nonmetal atoms.
What is a polar covalent bond?
This type of force occurs when two particles of like charges are close to each other.
What is repulsion?
This type of bond is where electrons are completely transferred from one atom to another.
What is an ionic bond?
This rule states that no more than two electrons can occupy an orbital and must have opposite spins.
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
This type of polarity is seen in symmetrical molecules.
What is nonpolar?
This type of bond is formed by the attraction between positively charged metal ions and electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
In VSEPR theory, these pairs of particles repel each other, causing them to spread as far apart from each other to create certain geometry.
What are electron pairs?
These particles are shared between adjacent metal atoms in metallic bonding.
What are electrons?
This rule states that atoms prefer to have eight electrons in the valence shell.
What is the octet rule?
This molecular shape occurs when a molecule has two bonded atoms and two lone pairs on the central atom.
What is bent or V-shaped?
This type of covalent bond occurs when electrons are shared completely equally, such as with diatomics.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
This molecular geometry occurs when there are four bonded pairs and one lone pair, such as with SF4.
What is seesaw or distorted tetrahedral?
This type of bond is characterized by a weak attraction between hydrogen and a highly electronegative atom.
What is a hydrogen bond?
This type of covalent bond involves electrons being shared equally between two atoms.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
This molecular geometry represents a molecule with five bonded pairs and no lone pairs.
What is trigonal bipyramidal?
This type of molecule has a partial positive end and a partial negative end.
What is a polar molecule?
This molecular shape occurs when there are three bonded atoms and one lone pair on a central atom and the lone pair repels the other bonds away.
What is trigonal pyramidal?
This type of bond is formed by the attraction between partially positive and negative regions of polar molecules.
What is a dipole-dipole bond?
These two valence electrons are not shared with another atom in a covalent bond.
What is a lone pair?
This molecular geometry shape occurs when there is a central atom with three identical ligands spaced 120 degrees apart.
What is trigonal planar?
This type of bond results from the overlap of atomic orbitals to share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
According to VSEPR theory, the molecular geometry of a molecule with six bonded pairs and no lone pairs.
What is octahedral?