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Atomic Bonding
Term | Definition |
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What is an Atom? | The smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist. |
What is present in an atom? | Protons, electrons and Neutrons |
How many types of bonding are there? | 4 |
Name the two types of atomic bonding! | Ionic Bonding and Covalent bonding |
What is Covalent Bonding? | It is a chemical bond that involves the addition of electron pairs to other atoms. |
What is Ionic Bonding? | It is the loss or gain of electrons between two elements to create 2 stable elements |
What charge have electrons? | Negative |
What charge have Protons? | Positive |
What is the atomic number? | It is the number of electrons |
What is the atomic mass? | it is the total number of protons plus the total number of neutrons expressed in atomic mass units |
How many electrons should orbit each shell of a nucleus? | first shell = 2 second shell =8 third shell = 10 |