Question

Give a single term for the following statements:
a) The tendency of atoms to have eight electrons in the outer shell.
b) Energy required to remove a valence electron to have an isolated atom.
c) The pair of electrons that are not involved in bond formation.
d) Tendency of an atom to attract bonded pairs of electrons towards itself in a molecule.
e) Bonds in which shared electron pair comes from one of the bonded atoms.

Answer 1

Given are the standard definitions of:

a) Octet rule

b) Ionization energy

c) Lone pair

d) Electronegativity

e) Coordinate covalent bond