Types of Chemical Bonds

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What type of ions do metals become when they lose their loosely-held outer electrons?

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Positive ions.

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What term describes the nature of bonds that don't have well-defined boundaries?

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A continuum.

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What happens to attractive and repulsive forces at the distance where atoms reach their minimum energy?

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They cancel each other out.

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Which type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?

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A covalent bond.

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What formula is used to calculate the energy in a bond between ions?

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Coulomb's law.

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What is an ionic bond?

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A type of chemical bond formed through the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions.

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What is a covalent bond?

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A chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.

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What is the octet rule?

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Atoms tend to bond in such a way that they have eight electrons in their valence shell.

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What is electronegativity?

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A measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons.

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What is a polar covalent bond?

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A type of covalent bond where the electrons are not shared equally between the two atoms.