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Physical Science A2
My notecards for my physical science class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chemical Bond- | the attractive force that holds atoms or ions together |
| Chemical Structure- | the arrangement of bonded atoms or ions within a substance |
| Bond Strength- | the average distance between the nuclei of two bonded atoms |
| Bond Angle- | the angle formed by two bonds to the same atom |
| Ionic Bond- | a bond formed by the attraction between oppisitly charged ions |
| Metallic Bond- | a bond formed by the attraction between positivley charged metal ions and the electrons around them |
| Covalent Bond- | a bond formed when atoms share one or more paairs of electrons |
| Polyatomic Ions- | an ion made of two or more atoms that are covalently bonded and that act like a single ion |
| Emprical Formula- | the simplest chemical formula of a compound that tells the smallet whole number ratio of atoms in the compound |
| Molecular Formula- | chemical formula that reports the actual numbers of atoms in one molecule of a compund |
| Organic Compund- | any covalently bonded compound that contains carbon |
| Polymer- | large organic molecule made of many smaller bonded units |
| Biochemical compound- | any organic compound that has an important role in living things |
| Cargohydrates- | any organic compound that is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and that provides nutrients to the cells of living things |
| Protein- | biological polymer made of bonded amino acids |
| Amino Acid- | any one of 20 different naturally occuring organic molecules that combine to form protein |