Ch. 18 - Chemical Bonds

What is the attractive force that holds atoms together?

Chemical bonds deal primarily with

What causes the difference between carbon bonding into diamond or into graphite?

What states the atom is most stable when its outermost (valence) shell is filled?

What is the number of electrons needed to fill the valence shell of an atom?

Which of the following are qualities of atoms with high electron affinity?

Which of the following are qualities of atoms with low electron affinity?

True or False. The ability of an atom to attract and hold electrons from another atom in a bond is called electronegativity.

Bonds created by sharing electrons with other atoms. Occurs most often between atoms with nearly full valence shells and similar electronegativities.

Bonds created by transferring (giving and taking) electrons where the total number of negative anions equal the total number of positive cations