Chapter 6 Vocab

4. equal sharing of electrons.
6. occur when electrons are shared unequally between atoms in the same molecule due to a high difference in the electronegativity of the atoms involved.
7. Complete transfer of electrons from metal (cation, giver) to nonmetal (anion, taker).
8. involves atoms combining to form chemical compounds and bring stability to the resulting product.
9. sharing of four electrons (two from each atom).
15. an ionic bonded compound.
16. a model used to predict 3-D molecular geometry based on the number of valence shell electron bond pairs among the atoms in a molecule or ion.
17. unequal sharing of electrons.
18. a temporary attractive force that results when the electrons in two adjacent atoms occupy positions that make the atoms form temporary dipoles.

1. the tendency of atoms to prefer to have eight electrons in the valence shell.
2. a special type of dipole-dipole attraction between molecules, not a covalent bond to a hydrogen atom with N, O or F.
3. a covalent bonded compound.
5. the forces that hold atoms together within a molecule.
10. a very simplified representation of the valence shell electrons in a molecule.
11. a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules or polyatomic ions where the bonding cannot be expressed by a single Lewis formula.
12. Sharing of electrons in pairs between two nonmetals, which form bond lines.
13. sharing of two electrons (one from each atom).
14. Bonding - Bonds that only occur between "normal" metals like the transition metals.