Chemical Bonding Word Search
Atoms hold on to each other in a few ways, and this chemical bonding word search covers them: ionic bonds between a cation and an anion, covalent bonds with a single bond, double bond or triple bond, metallic bonds, and the weak hydrogen bond between molecules.
In 1916 the American chemist Gilbert Lewis proposed that two atoms can share a pair of electrons, and he drew them as dots around the symbols of the elements, the Lewis structures students still draw. Most atoms bond until they have eight electrons in the outer shell, the octet rule. Sodium hands its one outer electron to chlorine, and the two ions pack into a cubic lattice in which every sodium sits beside six chlorines: table salt. Linus Pauling built a scale of how hard each element pulls on shared electrons and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his work on the bond.
Bonding explains how carbon can be two very different things. In diamond every carbon atom is bonded to four others in a rigid network, which makes it the hardest natural material. In graphite the atoms lie in flat sheets that slide over each other, so pencil lead rubs off onto paper. Water is a bent molecule with both hydrogens on one side, giving it a positive end and a negative end. Hydrogen bonds between those ends hold ice in an open pattern, which is why ice floats.
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- Ammonia
- Anion
- Attraction
- Bent
- Benzene
- Brittle
- Cation
- Compound
- Conductor
- Covalent
- Crystal
- Delocalized
- Diamond
- Dipole
- Double Bond
- Ductile
- Electrolyte
- Graphite
- Hydrogen Bond
- Ionic
- Lattice
- Lewis
- Linear
- Lone Pair
- Malleable
- Metallic
- Methane
- Molecule
- Nonpolar
- Octet Rule
- Pauling
- Polarity
- Resonance
- Single Bond
- Sodium Chloride
- Stable
- Tetrahedral
- Transfer
- Triple Bond
- Valence