English in chemistry 1 – 2017
TS. Nguyễn Tuyết Phương – TS. Trần Thu Phương
10
Lesson
4.
CHEMICAL BONDING
4.1 Listening: Covalent bonds
Complete the paragraph by filling the blanks
In this video you are going to learn about covalent bonds, how they are made and how they
are
…(1)…. If you haven’t seen it already, first have a look at our video “Structure and
bonding”.
Only the noble gases
…(2)… naturally as single atoms. All
the other elements of the
periodic table have partially filled valence shells or outer electron shells. Atoms bond by
swapping or sharing electrons in their outer shells. When very different atoms
…(3)… like
metals and nonmetals, they normally swap electrons. This is ionic bonding.
When similar
atoms react like nonmetals combining with other nonmetals, they
…(4)… electrons. This is
covalent bonding.
Nonmetals are found on the right hand side and upper part of the
…(5)… table. Some
common nonmetals are carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, and the halides. They have shells of
electrons that are normally half or more than half full of electrons. Since they have a strong
…(6)… for few additional electrons, it is energetically unfavorable
for them to lose
electrons. So they share electrons by overlapping orbitals. This makes a bonding orbital or
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