EXAM 3: Chemical Bonds

What are the two main types of bonds?

___________ form when two atoms share a pair of electrons.

__________ form when two atoms differ so much in electromagnegativity that one or more electrons are transferred from one atom to the other.

The overall shape of a molecule is its ____________

The forces that act between molecules or between molecules and ions are called:

Molecules are held together in a group by electrical forces called

In ________ the molecules are so arranged that the forces that attract and repel are balanced.

In __________ the molecules move about easily, but they still have some attractive force on one another

In __________ the molecules move about so fast that the attractive forces have little effect on them

The process by which many small molecules combine chemically to provide a large molecule is called