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Mind Map by Bee Brittain, updated more than 1 year ago
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5.3 Covalent Bonding
- Covalent compounds and molecules
- A Covalent Bond is a shared pair of electrons
- Covalent bonding is the strong electrostatic attraction between a shared pair of electrons and the nuclei of the bonded atoms
- Covalent bonding occurs between a non-metal and a non-metal
- E.g/ H2 and O2
- E.g/ H2 and O2
- Covalent bonding occurs between
compounds of non-metallic elements
such as H2O and CO2
- Covalent bonding occurs in polyatomic ions such as NH4 +
- A Covalent Bond is a shared pair of electrons
- Single Covalent Bonding
- Dative Covalent Bonding
- E.g NH4
- E.g NH4
- Number of covalent bonds
- Carbon forms 4 bonds
- Nitrogen forms 3 bonds
- Oxygen forms 2 bonds
- Hydrogen forms 1 bond
- Hydrogen forms 1 bond
- Oxygen forms 2 bonds
- Nitrogen forms 3 bonds
- Carbon forms 4 bonds
- Multiple Covalent bonds
- Double Bond e.g in O2
- Triple Bond e.g in N2
- Double Bond e.g in O2
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