Match each term to its meaning
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Cation
- Right
- The positive ion, from a metal
- Left
- Anion
- Right
- The negative ion, from a nonmetal
- Left
- Isoelectronic
- Right
- Same electron count as another
- Left
- Polar covalent
- Right
- Shared pair pulled to one side
- Left
- Lattice
- Right
- Repeating three-dimensional array
- Instructions
- Tap a term on the left, then tap its meaning on the right.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Chemistry 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 7 'Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry', sections 7.1-7.6_