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What is a chemical structure?
Arrangement of atoms in a substance
What is a chemical bond?
A bond that has more than one chemicals
What is a bond length?
Distance between two bonded atoms with minimum potential energy.
What is a bond angle?
Angle formed between two atoms
What is a hydrogen bond?
Hydrogen atom bonded to a highly electronegative atom that is attracted to two unshared electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
Bond formed by two oppositely charged ions.
What is a metallic bond?
Between positively charged metal ions.
What is a covalent bond?
When atoms share one or more electrons.
What is a polyatomic ion?
Ion of two ore more atoms.
What is a formula unit?
What the formula makes and ends up with.
What is non-polar covalent bond?
Bond which has equally distributed electrons.
What is polar covalent bond?
Unequally shared electrons
What is an empirical formula?
Tells smallest whole number ratios of atoms that are In a compound.
What is a molecular formula?
How many atoms are in one molecule of the compound.
What is an organic compound?
Covalently bonded compound of molecules
What is a polymer?
Large molecules
What is a carbohydrate?
Organic compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxogen.
What is a protein?
Organic compound of one or more amino acids.
What is an amino acid?
One of 20 different organic molecules.
What is a hydrocarbon?
Compound of carbon and hydrogen.
What is alkane?
Chemical formula
What is alkene?
Double carbon bonds
What is DNA?
A polymer with a complex structure.