BIO 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Electron Shell, Sodium Bicarbonate, Ionic Compound

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13 Mar 2017
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Atoms, molecules, and compounds: an atom is the smallest subunit of an element that has characteristics associated with that element, a proton has a positive charge and a neutron has a negative charge. Each orbital can contain no more than 2 electrons. Shells farther away from the nucleus have more energy and may contain many orbitals. Most outer electron shells contain four orbitals, and thus can hold a maximum of eight electrons. Since most atoms have outer electron shells that can hold a maximum of eight electrons, chemists refer to this tendency of interaction as the octet rule. A polar compound has a positive and a negative region. Hydrogen bonds: a hydrogen bond is an attraction between a hydrogen atom located within one polar molecule and an oxygen or nitrogen atom located within another molecule. If the h-bond exists within one large macromolecule, it is an intramolecular h-bond (intra, within).

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