David+Barish


 * 1) What is a covalent bond? A covalent bond is a form of chemical bonding that is characterized by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms and other covalent bonds.Answer from wikipideia.
 * 2) What is an ionic bond? A ionic bond is a type of chemical bond that involves a metal and a nonmetal ion through electrostatic attraction.Answer from wikipidiea.
 * 3) List 5 differences between ionic and covalent compounds (Ex. high or low boiling and melting points, sharing or transferring electrons, etc.). Ionic compounds are formed from metals and nonmetals and covalent bonds are formed from a nonmetal and another nonmetal,ionic have a high boiling point and covalent compounds have a low melting and boiling point ionic compounds are Crystaline solids adn covalent are gas or liquid areRTP,ionic compounds transfer electrons and covalent compounds share valence electrons and ionic compounds are crystals as where covalent compounds are molecules.
 * 4) Find 5 Lewis Structures and copy and paste them on your page. Determine their molecular geometry.

Trigonal Planar Squar Planar Tetrahedral Octahedral Tetrahedral

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 * __Guide to Naming and Wriiting Formulas for Chemical Compound__**

HCN - HydroCyanic Acid It is like this because of onethe first rule of nameing acids. It says when it was a -ide ending u make the prefix -hydro and change the ending from -ide to -ic.

Hypochlorous acid- HClO The second rule if it ends in -ite change the ending to -ous. Since it changed to -ous i knew that it did have -ous so i found out that it was Hypochlorite.

Tetranitrogen heptoxide - N4O7 They are both nonmetals so it is covalent so i just add prefixes to make up the formulas.
 * -Very well done. Good formulas and names.**