True or false: bonding
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Breaking a bond releases energy.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Forming a bond releases energy.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Sodium chloride exists as separate molecules.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Transition metals lose their s electrons first.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Calcium's ion has the same electron count as argon.
- Instructions
- Tap True or False for each statement.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Chemistry 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 7 'Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry', sections 7.1-7.6_