Bonding in Atoms

This article covers about the requirements for an ionic bond formation from the perspective of the electronegativity difference between atoms, and their ease of formation of ions.

This article covers about the requirements for an ionic bond formation from the perspective of the electronegativity difference between atoms, and their ease of formation of ions.

This article covers the basics of ionic compound formation.

Learning Objective: To study the octet rule by G.N. Lewis, considering both ionic and covalent bonding, with examples.

Learning Objective: To study the limitations of the octet rule, with examples.

This article covers the introduction, formation, and characteristics of the ionic bond.

The atoms that form covalent bonds are the nonmetals (p-block elements), and they must have an electronegativity difference lower than 1.7.

Once each electron of the two atoms forms the covalent bond, the electrons are simultaneously distributed between them so that they belong to both the at

Once the outermost valence electrons of the atoms are engaged in the covalent bond formation to make a molecule, some electrons withhold themselves from the bond-making p

The atoms that embark on the journey of bond formation are likely to have an electron imbalance. They are less stable and become highly reactive.

The Covalent bond is one of the two linkages by which atoms join to form molecules and is therefore classified under chemical bonds.

Pre-requisite: Nuclear charge, Valence electrons

When atoms of different types combine to form molecules, it is a heteroatomic molecule.

When the atoms combining to form molecules are of the same type, it is a homoatomic molecule.

Atoms generally form bonding arrangements that give them filled shells of electrons like a noble gas configuration.

Ion is different from an atom since an atom is an electrically neutral specie with an equal number of positive protons and negative elec

A metallic solid is made of many metal atoms composed of kernels and electrons, the positive kernels held in arrays while the negative electrons float ar

Atom, the omnipresent particle that builds the universe, hides its identity in a tiny, sub-atomic particle- the proton, where the proton number decides the type of the at

A metal atom is large, so the nucleus cannot attract and hold its outermost electrons. The metal loses those electrons and becomes positively charged kernels.

In ionic compounds, a metal atom loses an electron, forms a cation, and another nonmetal atom gains it, creating an anion.

Metallic solid consists of several metal atoms of the same kind bonded together closely.

Several characteristic properties of the metals are due to the nature of the metallic bond. Some unique properties include- 

A metallic bond is a chemical bond seen in metals consisting of tightly bound metal atoms of the same type. 

If a two-electron covalent bond breaks symmetrically, each of the two atoms receive one electron; it is a homolytic bond cleavage.

A chemical bond strength is a force holding the atoms in a bond, and separating such atoms requires energy input.