The chemical bond is defined, and students learn to distinguish between ionic and covalent Introduction to Bonding: The chemical bond is defined, and students learn to distinguish between ionic, ...

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What makes some plastics stick to metal without any glue? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have peered into the ...

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Researchers resolve the age-old mystery of why silicon cannot replace carbon in organic compounds. A new benchmark quantum chemical calculation of C2, Si2, and their hydrides for the first time ...

The concept of the chemical bond has been around since the days when chemistry still was considered magic, and it continued to be a point of interest in the 17th century when chemistry was evolving ...

A chemical bond is a union between two atoms. The idea that, on occasions, a third atom might hop into the bed was so offensive when it was first proposed that it provoked a decades-long flame war. It ...