Oxygen atoms have a greater electronegativity than hydrogen atoms. Electronegativity is the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract electrons to itself.
The pair of atoms with the greatest polarity is oxygen and hydrogen. This is because oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, causing electrons to be unequally shared in the bond, resulting in a strong dipole moment.
Electronegativity is the term used to describe the strong attraction that atoms like oxygen and hydrogen have for electrons. This property influences how atoms bond with each other to form molecules.
The sharing of electrons is what bonds hydrogen and oxygen together.
False, a Hydrogen has 1 electron and Oxygen has 8 electrons
NO! No atom of one element ever has the same atomic number as an atom of a different element, because atomic number is the property that characterizes an element and distinguishes it from all other elements.
polar bonds
In the compound H2O, the electrons in the bonds are unequally shared between oxygen and hydrogen, forming a polar covalent bond. Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, causing it to pull the shared electrons closer to itself, creating partial negative and positive charges on each atom.
The pair of atoms with the greatest polarity is oxygen and hydrogen. This is because oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, causing electrons to be unequally shared in the bond, resulting in a strong dipole moment.
In H2O the electrons are shared by the oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. Although there are two hydrogen atoms, the electro-negativity (or ability to attract electrons) of the oxygen is greater than the hydrogens, therefore the electrons are pulled greater towards the oxygen resulting in the oxygen becoming "negatively charged" this results in the molecule becoming what is known as a "dipolar molecule". This is what causes water to be attracted to each other as each molecule has a positive and negative pole. Answered by Mason Rawling-Jones (currently 15).
Electronegativity is the term used to describe the strong attraction that atoms like oxygen and hydrogen have for electrons. This property influences how atoms bond with each other to form molecules.
The sharing of electrons is what bonds hydrogen and oxygen together.
Water has polar covalent bonds because the electrons are shared unequally between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms. This results in a partial positive charge on the hydrogen atoms and a partial negative charge on the oxygen atom, making water a polar molecule.
False, a Hydrogen has 1 electron and Oxygen has 8 electrons
An oxygen atom has 6 electrons in its outermost energy level. When it shares electrons with two hydrogen atoms to form a water molecule, oxygen will share 2 of its electrons with each hydrogen atom, allowing each hydrogen to complete its outermost energy level with 2 electrons. This results in oxygen having a full outermost energy level with 8 electrons.
Water is a compound with a polar covalent bond. The electrons in the covalent bond are shared unequally between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms, leading to a partial negative charge on the oxygen atom and partial positive charges on the hydrogen atoms.
Because, unless bonded to another hydrogen atom, the "covalent" bond is actually partially ionic, meaning the electron shared in the bond tends to spend more time close to the other atom making the hydrogen partially positive. This is due to electronegativity. Most other atoms are more electronegative than hydrogen, meaning they have a stronger attractive force for electrons than hydrogen does, so the other atom pulls on the hydrogen more strongly and ends up being more negative in the bonding pair than hydrogen.
When hydrogen and oxygen bind to form water, the electrons are shared between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms. This sharing creates a stable covalent bond in the water molecule.