Like everything else in the universe, atoms do whatever they can to ___

Atoms reach their lowest energy by achieving a balance between ___

The law of electric charges says that ___

What is the distance between two nuclei at the point of minimum energy called?

The distance at which atoms reach their minimum energy is where the attractive and repulsive forces ___

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

The strength with which an atom holds shared electrons is called its ___

When shared unequally, electrons spend most of their time around the atom with ___

The separation of charges, due to unequal sharing of electrons, is called ___

What type of bond is formed when shared electrons are attracted to one atom more than the other?

When electrons are evenly shared between two identical atoms, what type of bond forms?

When a bond is formed, and the difference in electronegativities is tiny, we call that ___

Which elements tend to form covalent bonds?

Metals have loosely-held outer electrons, so they're constantly dropping them and becoming ___

What type of ions are commonly formed from halogens?

What type of bond is formed between a positive ion and a negative ion?

Which formula is used to calculate the amount of energy that exists in a bond between ions?

Sodium and chloride ions are strongly attracted to each other due to their ___

Bonds don't always have really well-defined boundaries. Everything is ___

Because of the way the ions act together, ionic compounds in their solid form are often ___

Because ions interact with water molecules, ionic compounds are generally ___

Once they're separated or dissolved, the ions from ionic compounds allow the solution to ___

Covalent compounds tend to be ___