CH-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Oxyanion, Ionic Compound, Ionic Radius

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CH-1010
• Professor: Mycia Cox

Document Summary

Carbon dioxide is good at trapping heat because it absorbs infrared. Multitude of compounds exists because most of them are more stable radiation. To understand why it does, we need to consider the characteristics of the chemical bonds that hold atoms together in co2 and other molecular compounds. 4. 1 chemical bonds than the free elements that make them up. Ionic bonds metallic elements and anions formed from nonmetals. These ions are held together by the electrostatic attraction that ions of opposite charge have for each other. The strength of this attraction is a form of potential energy called. An atom"s outermost electrons are the ones involved in forming. Ionic compounds consist of combinations of cations formed from product of their charges (q1 and q2) and inversely proportional to the distance (d) between their nuclei. Two ions that have the same charge that is, two positive ions or two negative ions repel each other.