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| The number of ions of opposite charge that surround the ion in a crystal |
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| The electrostatic attraction that binds oppositely charged ions together. |
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| The lowest who-number ratio of ions in an ionic compound |
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| Transfer of e- from a metal to a nonmetal (metal loses e- & the nonmetal gains e- to from stable octet) |
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| Compunds composed of cations and anions. |
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| The attraction of free-floating valence electrons for positively charged metal ions |
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| Amixture of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal |
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| In forming compounds, atoms tend to react so as to acquire the stable electron configuration of a noble gas. |
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| Electrons in the highest occupied energy level of an elemt's atoms. |
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| The electrons in the highest occupied enegy level of an atom are called? |
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| States that atoms in compounds tend to have the electron configuration of a noble gas |
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| An oxygen atom attains a stable electron configuration by: |
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| Atoms and ions with ______ electrons in their highest enrgy levels are ver stable. |
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| Silver form a cation by attaining a ______ electron configuration with 18 outer electrons incluiding d electrons |
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| Tend to lose electrons when they react to form compounds |
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| Any atom or group of atoms with a negative charge |
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| A tightly bound group of atoms that behaves as a unit and carries a charge |
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| A relatively strong intermolecular attraction in which a hydrogen that is covalently bonded to a very electronegative atom is also weakly bonded to an unshared pair of electrons of another electronegativity atom. |
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| A negative ion formed when a halogen atom gains an electron |
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| A bond in which one atom contributes both bonding electrons to a covalent bond |
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| Valence (reactive) e- promoted (by metals) into high empty orbitals to form positive nuclei and a cloud (or sea) of mobile e- |
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| Sharing of e- between two or more nonmetals to gain stable octet (noble gas structure) |
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| Bond dissociation orbital |
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| The total energy required to break the bond between two covalently bonded atoms. |
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| Bonding molecular orbital |
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| A molecular orbital whose energy is lower than that of the atomic orbitals from which is formed |
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| A tightly connected group of two or more atoms of nonmetallic elements that behave as an electrically neutral unit. |
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| A diagram that shows valence electrons as dots |
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| Molecular orbital that lies along the axis connecting two atomic nuclei |
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| A process in which several atomic orbitals mix to form the same number of equivalent hybrid orbitals. |
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