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Vocab terms for Chapter 5

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  • Ionic Bonding

     the type of chemical bond formed by the electrostatic attraction between positively and negatively charged ions, created when electrons are transferred from 1 atom to another. 

  • Covalent Bonding

    a chemical bond in which two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration .

  • Binary acids

    hydrogen + 1 other nonmetal element, no oxygen atoms

  • Oxyacids

    inorganic acid whose molecules contain: hydrogen + central nonmetal element + oxygen

  • Formula Mass

    sum of average atomic (atomic mass*times it occurs) masses of all atoms in a chemical compound's formula, expressed in (amu).