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| a chemical bond in which atoms are held together by their mutual attraction for two or more electrons they share |
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| an element or chemical compound in which atoms are held together by covalent bonds |
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| a separation of electric charge that occurs in a chemical bond because of differences in the electronegativities of the bonded atoms |
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| a shorthand notation of the shell model of the atom in which valence electrons are shown around an atomic symbol |
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| the ability of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons to itself when bonded to another atom |
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| an electrically charged particle created when an atom either loses or gains one or more electrons |
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| a chemical bond in which an attractive electric force holds ions of opposite charge together |
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| any chemical compound containing ions |
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| a group of atoms held tightly together by covalent bonds |
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| two paired valence electrons that don't participate in a chemical bond |
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| a chemical bond in which bonding electrons are distributed evenly between bonding atoms. Such a bond has no dipole |
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| a chemical bond in which bonding electrons are distributed unevenly between bonding atoms. Such a bond has a dipole. The more uneven the sharing, the greater the dipole. |
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| the outermost occupied shell of an atom that contains electrons that can participate in chemical bonding by either being lost, gained, or shared |
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