Biology vocabulary
Across
- 2. a unique substance that consists of two of more elements combined in fixed proportion
- 3. a molecule in which one end of the molecule is slightly positive, while the other end is slightly negative.
- 6. the act, state, or process of sticking together of alike molecules or entities.
- 8. an atom of a group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric change as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons
- 9. the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another
- 11. a type of chemical bond that is formed when electrons are shared equally between two atoms.
- 12. formed by the equal sharing of electrons from both participating
- 13. the bond formed by the complete transfer of valence electron to attain stability
Down
- 1. covalent bond in which the atoms have an unequal attraction for electrons, and so the sharing is unequal.
- 4. a pure substance consisting of only one type of atom which all have the same numbers of protons in their nuclei
- 5. a variation of an element that possesses the same atomic number but a different mass number
- 7. An uncharged elementary particle that has mass nearly equal to the proton and is present in all known atomic nuclei except the hydrogen nucleus
- 9. A particle of matter that uniquely defines a chemical element
- 10. A subatomic particle with a particle electrical charge