Atomic Structure

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A horizontal row of elements in the periodic table

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Period

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The smallest particle of an element.

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Atom

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A substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical or physical means.

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Element

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A chemical bond where electrons are shared between two atoms. In this type of bond no ions are. You will find these bonds when carbon bonds to other elements.

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Covalent bond

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A chemical bond that has hydrogen covalently bonded to an electronegative atom. It happens when oxygen bonds to hydrogen.

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Hydrogen bond

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A combination of two or more atoms

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Molecule

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A physical model that depicts the atom as a small positively charged nucleus with electrons in orbit at different levels.

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Bohr Model

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A diagram that shows the bonding between atoms of a molecule and the lone pair of electrons that may exist in the molecule

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Electron dot diagram

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A chemical bond between two atoms where one or more electrons are passed from one atom to another. When they give up electrons, each of the atoms should have a filled shell. An example is the sodium chloride bond.

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Ionic bond

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Elements in the same vertical column of the periodic table; also called group

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Family