Types of Bonding Flashcards
What is bonding?
An attraction between atoms brought about by a sharing of electrons between two atoms or a complete transfer of electrons.
What is released when a chemical bond is formed?
energy
Breaking chemical bonds requires _______.
energy
What is chemical bonding?
The bonds between atoms that are formed during chemical reactions.
____________allow substances containing _______________ to be formed.
Chemical bonds, two or more atoms
True or false: Noble gases like helium, neon, and argon are very unreactive.
True
True or false: Noble gases form bonds with other atoms.
False
True or false: All Noble gases have fully filled valence shells.
True
True or false: All noble gases, including helium, have eight electrons in their outermost shell.
False
In ionic bonding, electrons are __________ or _________.
exchanged, transferred
In covalent and metallic bonding, electrons are __________.
shared
Ionic bonding occurs between a _________ and a ________.
metal, nonmetal
Covalent bonding occurs between two __________.
nonmetals
Metallic bonding occurs between two __________.
metals
What are covalent bonds?
Bonds in which two atoms share a pair of valence electrons.