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Anion
A negatively charged ion.
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Bond
That which holds together atoms in molecules and ions in lattices.
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Cation
A positively charged ion.
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Coulomb's Law
A mathematical formula whose consequence is that negatively and positively charged particles attract each other and similarly charged species repel each other.
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Covalent Bond
A bond that results from a sharing of electrons between nuclei.
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Ion
A charged species created by the gain or loss of an electron from an atom or neutral molecule.
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Ionic Bond
A bond that results from electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions. The cation is positively charged, while the anion is negatively charged.
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Lattice
A regularly repeating three-dimensional array of atoms, molecules, or ions.
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Molecular Orbital
A combination of atomic orbitals in molecular orbital theory that provides an orbital description of a molecule analogous to the atomic orbital description of atoms.
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Molecular Orbital Theory
A description of bonding that combines atomic orbitals from each bondedatom to produce a set of molecular orbitals.
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Molecule
A chemical species containing a covalent bond.
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Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory
A theory used to predict bonding geometries that states that electron pairs will be distributed about the central atom to minimize electron pair repulsions.