Unit 4 Vocabulary
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Anion - A negatively charged ion.
Bond - That which holds together atoms in molecules and ions in lattices.
Cation - A positively charged ion.
Coulomb's Law - A mathematical formula whose consequence is that negatively and positively charged particles attract each other and similarly charged species repel each other.
Covalent Bond - A bond that results from a sharing of electrons between nuclei.
Ion - A charged species created by the gain or loss of an electron from an atom or neutral molecule.
Ionic Bond - A bond that results from electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions. The cation is positively charged, while the anion is negatively charged.
Lattice - A regularly repeating three-dimensional array of atoms, molecules, or ions.
Molecular Orbital - A combination of atomic orbitals in molecular orbital theory that provides an orbital description of a molecule analogous to the atomic orbital description of atoms.
Molecular Orbital Theory - A description of bonding that combines atomic orbitals from each bondedatom to produce a set of molecular orbitals.
Molecule - A chemical species containing a covalent bond.
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory - A theory used to predict bonding geometries that states that electron pairs will be distributed about the central atom to minimize electron pair repulsions.
Bond - That which holds together atoms in molecules and ions in lattices.
Cation - A positively charged ion.
Coulomb's Law - A mathematical formula whose consequence is that negatively and positively charged particles attract each other and similarly charged species repel each other.
Covalent Bond - A bond that results from a sharing of electrons between nuclei.
Ion - A charged species created by the gain or loss of an electron from an atom or neutral molecule.
Ionic Bond - A bond that results from electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions. The cation is positively charged, while the anion is negatively charged.
Lattice - A regularly repeating three-dimensional array of atoms, molecules, or ions.
Molecular Orbital - A combination of atomic orbitals in molecular orbital theory that provides an orbital description of a molecule analogous to the atomic orbital description of atoms.
Molecular Orbital Theory - A description of bonding that combines atomic orbitals from each bondedatom to produce a set of molecular orbitals.
Molecule - A chemical species containing a covalent bond.
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory - A theory used to predict bonding geometries that states that electron pairs will be distributed about the central atom to minimize electron pair repulsions.
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