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The number of electron pairs shared by two bonded atoms is the bond?
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The number of electron pairs determines the type of hybridization between atoms. A single bond is sp, while double is sp2, and triple is sp3.
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What is the term for an unbalanced charge on a molecule?
What you are describing is a polar covalent bond. In which the bonded atoms have an unequal attraction for the shared electron and an unbalanced distribution of charge results. An example is HCl - the shared electron oscillates between the bonded atoms. The resulting partial charges are a property only of zones within the distribution, and not the assemblage as a whole.
What is the arrangement of molecules of matter?
The molecules in a solid are bonded together permanently. Liquid molecules, on the other hand, also have bonded molecules but they continuously break and reform with other molecules. Gas molecules are not bonded.
What kind of atoms are bonded to carbon atoms in the molecule?
Atom which have lone pair to donate their electron to complete their octet.
What holds covalently bonded atoms together and what are the properties of molecular compounds?
In a covalent bond the electrons are shared between atoms.
What makes atoms spread out a central atoms?
the shared valence electron pairs repel each other.
What is the term for an unbalanced charge on a molecule?
What you are describing is a polar covalent bond. In which the bonded atoms have an unequal attraction for the shared electron and an unbalanced distribution of charge results. An example is HCl - the shared electron oscillates between the bonded atoms. The resulting partial charges are a property only of zones within the distribution, and not the assemblage as a whole.
What are some characteristis of covalent bonds?
The electron(s) between two atoms are "shared" with a covalent bond (as opposed to an ionic bond where one of the atoms gets the electron and the other atom is bonded by electrostatic (ionic) force).
What is a molecule bonding?
Just as the valence electrons of atoms occupy atomic orbitals (AO), the shared electron pairs of covalently bonded atoms may be thought of as occupying molecular orbitals (MO).
Electronegativity is a measure of an atom's ability to?
Kind of... It is a measure of the electrons on a single atom of that element.
What happens with the electrons when a covalent bond forms?
The electrons are shared between the two atoms that bonded, combining the total number of electrons in a large electron cloud. In a polar covalent bond, one atom shares, or "attracts" most of the atoms, while in a nonpolar covalent, they are equally shared. Covalent atoms are always only shared, unlike with ionic compounds, which "steal" electrons from the other atom.
Is oxygen an ionic polar or nonpolar covalent bond?
Molecular oxygen is a non polar molecule where the electron cloud is equally shared between the bonded oxygen atoms.
What happends to electrons in a colvalent bond?
Electrons are shared between the atoms that are bonded. If there is an electronegativity difference between the atoms the electrons will be shared unequally.
What in a covalent bond equals the bond order?
The bond order is determined by the number of shared electrons between the two bonded atoms.
What kind of atoms are bonded to carbon atoms in the molecule?
Atom which have lone pair to donate their electron to complete their octet.
What is the arrangement of molecules of matter?
The molecules in a solid are bonded together permanently. Liquid molecules, on the other hand, also have bonded molecules but they continuously break and reform with other molecules. Gas molecules are not bonded.
Type of compound where electrons are shared between bonded atoms?
I think it may be covalent.
What holds covalently bonded atoms together and what are the properties of molecular compounds?
In a covalent bond the electrons are shared between atoms.
