What is a covalent bond?
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Covalent
//kəʊˈveɪ.lənt//
Synonyms for "covalent"
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21 translations across 19 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- covalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 共價的 /共价的 adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
- 共價的 /共价的 adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Czech
1 entries- kovalentní adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Dutch
1 entries- covalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Esperanto
1 entries- kovalenta adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Finnish
1 entries- kovalenttinen adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Greek
1 entries- ομοιοπολικός adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Hungarian
1 entries- kovalens adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Italian
1 entries- covalente adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Latin
2 entries- convalēns adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
- covalēns adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kovalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kovalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Persian
1 entries- کووالانت adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Polish
1 entries- kowalencyjny adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Portuguese
1 entries- covalente adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Russian
1 entries- ковалентный adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Spanish
1 entries- covalente adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Swedish
1 entries- kovalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
Welsh
1 entries- cofalent adj (containing or characterized by a covalent bond)
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What's a covalent bond?
Source: tatoeba (6013077)
Organic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies the structure, properties and reactions of organic compounds, which contain carbon in covalent bonding.
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At the molecular level, salt dissolves in water due to electrical charges and due to the fact that both water and salt compounds are polar, with positive and negative charges on opposite sides in the molecule. The bonds in salt compounds are called ionic because they both have an electrical charge—the chloride ion is negatively charged and the sodium ion is positively charged. Likewise, a water molecule is ionic in nature, but the bond is called covalent, with two hydrogen atoms both situating themselves with their positive charge on one side of the oxygen atom, which has a negative charge. When salt is mixed with water, the salt dissolves because the covalent bonds of water are stronger than the ionic bonds in the salt molecules.
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