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Unit 5 vocab
Chem
| Alloy | a mixture of metals |
| Anion | a negative ions that gains electrons |
| Binary compound | a chemical compound composed of exactly 2 different elements |
| Cation | a positive ion that loses electrons |
| Chemical reaction | a process in which reactants form to products |
| Coulombic forces | the attraction and repulsion of atoms |
| Empirical formulas | shows simpilist ratio of elements and tells relative number of atoms |
| Endothermic | energy is added to break a bond |
| exothermic | atoms more to lower energy to form a bond |
| formula | shows the types of atoms present in a substance |
| Ion | an atom that gains or loses electrons |
| ionic bonds | a type of bond that occors when atoms transfer electrons to achieve full octet |
| Lewis dot diagram | a diagram that shows the configuration of electrons |
| Metallic bond | metal atoms share a sea of delocated electrons |
| molecular formula | actual number of atoms and reveals the composition |
| polyatomic ion | many ions |
| subscript | shows how many atoms of an element are present in a substance |
| ternary compound | a chemical compound composed of 3 different elements |