Much of what follows will seem overly
detailed and tedious and with very little point. Right now, I want only
to say that this is, in fact, one of the most important units in
chemistry and that by the end of this chapter you will have the
beginning ideas that will allow you to understand everything from why
salt shrivels up a slug, to why water beads up on a newly waxed car, to
why clouds form as warm moist air rises, to why so many chemical
reactions (like those that make life work) occur in water.
Bonding is the name for the
force or forces that hold compounds together. For example a water
molecule is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom bonded
together. Bonding is NOT the force that holds a drop of water together.
Forces of that type are called intermolecular attractions and will be
dealt with later. There are two types of bonding that you need to
understand. Covalent boding and ionic bonding. Ionic bonding is the
simpler of the two and it is recommended, therefore, that you tackle it
first.
Other topics in this unit:
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