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What is the word for strong attraction to electrons as do the atoms of oxygen and hydrogen.?
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electronegativity, i believe
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Why is carbon the strongest element?
The bond between carbon and oxygen is moderately strong. This results from the fact that oxygen has a stronger attraction for electrons (in other words a higher electronegativity) than carbon does, so if carbon shares its electrons with oxygen, there is much less energy expended upon pulling the electrons away from a carbon atom, than the energy that is gained by giving them to an oxygen atom.
Why sharing electrons causes atoms to bond together?
When electrons are shared between atoms, the nuclei of both atoms experience attraction towards the electrons and vice versa. At a certain distance, the attraction is maximal because the repulsion between the nuclei is small while the attraction of each nuclei to the electrons is strong. Thus, the atoms are held together by their attraction to the shared electrons.
Is force of attraction between molecule of milk and molecule of water cohesive?
Water molecules are very cohesive due to the relative positive charge of their hydrogen atoms compared to their oxygen atoms, this allows them to form strong hydrogen bonds in a tetrahedral configuration.
Can water get alcohol out of your system?
Yes. Both water and alcohol are polar molecules, because each features a hydrogen atom directly bonded to an oxygen atom. This combination has a high electronegativity difference, which means a "hydrogen bond" will exist between the two molecules. This "bond" is actually a strong positive to negative attraction, and this attraction causes water and alcohol to effectively dissolve each other.
Why the hexagonal shape always appear in the ice?
The characteristic shapes and crystalline structure found in ice and snow are down to a number of variables. Pressure, temperature and impurities can alter the way water molecules interact and therefore change the shape. Most importantly is the electrostatic attraction between the Hydrogen and Oxygen found in water. The elements Hydrogen and Oxygen share valence electrons to form water, and as each water molecule has a strong chemical polarity, these molecules are highly attracted to each other, forming a uniform electrostatic bond.
The attraction of water particles to each other?
Strong hydrogen bonds as the Oxygen is really electronegative and the hydrogen is really unelectronegative. The hydrogen bonds to the oxygen of another molecule.
Why is water formed?
Water is formed due to the strong attraction between the hydrogen and oxygen molecules.
What is the natural attraction element?
natural element differ for elements because elements or atoms are a basic unit of matter that cosists of negitively changed electrons
Explain why water contains strong hydrogen bonds and h2s does not?
The hydrogen bond involves hydrogen in a covalent bond with a highly electronegative element, like oxygen in water. Pure hydrogen H2 involves 2 atoms with exactly the same electronegativity. In water the large difference in electronegativity means that the bond is polar covalent. In addition to that, the hydrogen is not quite, but nearly a point nucleus because there are no other electrons in hydrogen than those shared. This causes a very strong attraction --- not a real bond -- between the hydrogen and the highly negative oxygen in an adjacent molecule. This is the real hydrogen bond, the attraction of the hydrogen for an element in another molecule. Real bonds are within one molecule.
Why there is strong attraction between the water molecules though a water molecule itself is electrically neutral?
Water is a polar molecule, it has a bent shape with the Hydrogen (positive side) molecules on the opposite side of the Oxygen (the negative side) the type of molecular attraction (Inter molecular forces) present in water, (giving it it's cohesion) is called Hydrogen Bonding. The positive hydrogen (and it is more positive because it's so much smaller then the oxygen, leading to uneven sharing of electrons, meaning the oxygen will pull the electrons more, making it more negative) wants to be near the negative oxygen of another water molecule.
Why is oxygen gas produced from the decomposition of H2O2 and not hydrogen gas?
Hydrogen has a much lower attraction for electrons than oxygen does (or in more technical terms, oxygen has a much higher electronegativity). So when hydrogen gives up an electron to oxygen, it creates a strong chemical bond (although not an ionic bond; hydrogen's electronegativity is too high for that). When hydrogen peroxide gives up excess oxygen, the hydrogen remains bonded to the remaining oxygen (since hydrogen peroxide becomes water, H2O). If instead the hydrogen peroxide were to give up hydrogen, you would lose the powerful bond between hydrogen and oxygen, and all you would get in exchange would be a much weaker bond between hydrogen atoms and other hydrogen atoms, in the diatomic hydrogen molecule. Chemical reactions move in the direction of the strongest available bonds.
Do plasma molecules have a strong attraction to each other?
electrons :)
What holds the hydrogen and oxygen molecules together in water?
Covalent bonds. The hydrogen and oxygen bond together by sharing outer shell electrons.
Can the hydrogen atoms in water molecules attract electrons more strongly than the oxygen atom does?
Oxygen has a stronger attraction for electrons because there is a greater probability of finding the shared electrons near the oxygen atom than near the hydrogen atom, due to the higher electronegativity of oxygen compared to hydrogen.
What type of chemical bond does water have?
The two hydrogen atoms in water molecule (H2O) are connected to the oxygen via covalent bonds, which means the hydrogen and oxygen share electrons. (The hydrogen-oxygen bonds are primarily covalent rather than ionic.)The molecules in liquid water are said to engage in hydrogen boding between molecules. Water molecules are very polar because the oxygen has a partial negative charge and the hydrogens have partial positive charges. Because it is so polar, water can form hydrogen bonds, where the oxygen from one molecule of water has a strong attraction to the hydrogen atoms in another molecule of water. These H-bonds are strong compared to other intermolecular forces, but still fairly weak compared to the covalent bonds within the water molecules.
Why is carbon the strongest element?
The bond between carbon and oxygen is moderately strong. This results from the fact that oxygen has a stronger attraction for electrons (in other words a higher electronegativity) than carbon does, so if carbon shares its electrons with oxygen, there is much less energy expended upon pulling the electrons away from a carbon atom, than the energy that is gained by giving them to an oxygen atom.
What causes water to display such strong hydrogen bonding?
When you put hydrogen and oxygen together, the electrons spend most of their time on oxygen since it is more electronegative than hydrogen. This causes there to be a "partial charge" on both hydrogen and oxygen. Since oxygen has the electrons spending more time on it, it is more negative than hydrogen. So in H2O, the hydrogens are slightly more positive than the oxygens. When water molecules come near each other, the slightly positive hydrogens are then attracted to the slightly negative oxygens, and you end up having hydrogen bonding.
