chapter 5 vocab
chapter 5 vocab
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- carbohydrate
- any organic compound that is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and that provides nutrients to the cell sof living things
- bond length
- the distancebetween two bonded atoms at their minimum potential energy; the average distance between the nuclei of two bonded atoms
- covalent bond
- a bond formed when atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.
- amino acid
- any one of 20 different organic molecules that contain a carbonxyl and an amino group adn that combine to form proteins.
- chemical bonds
- the attactive force that holds atoms or ions together.
- polymer
- a large molecule that is formed by more than five monomers, or small units
- protein
- An organic compound that is made of one or more chains of amino acids and that is a principal component of all cells.
- metallic bond
- a bond formed by the attraction between positively gharged metals ions and the electrons around them.
- empirical formula
- the composition of a compound in terms of the numbers and kinds of atoms in the simplest form
- chemical structure
- the arrangement of the atoms in a substance
- ionic bond
- a bond formed by the attraction between oppositely charged ions
- bond angle
- the angle formed bty the two bonds to the same atom
- polyatomic ion
- an ion made of two or more atoms
- molecular formula
- a chemical formula that shows the number and kinds of atoms in a molecule, but not the arrangement of atoms
- organic compound
- a covalently bonded compound that contains carbon, excluding carbonates and oxides