Bonding bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   The eight outer electrons that make a stable arrangement.

   Item

   Octet

2. Clue

   The outer shell electrons that take part in bonding.

   Item

   Valence e

3. Clue

   How many bonds join the two atoms in a molecule.

   Item

   Bond order

4. Clue

   Energy per mole to break one type of bond in a gas.

   Item

   Bond enthalpy

5. Clue

   One atom's share of the distance across a covalent bond.

   Item

   Cov radius

6. Clue

   Charge size multiplied by the distance between the centres.

   Item

   Dipole moment

7. Clue

   Energy needed to pull one mole of an ionic solid apart.

   Item

   Lattice enth

8. Clue

   Used when one Lewis structure cannot describe a molecule.

   Item

   Resonance

9. Clue

   The stronger bond, formed by the larger orbital overlap.

   Item

   Sigma bond

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation