Atomic Hook-Ups – Types of Chemical Bonds: Crash Course Chemistry #22

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Atoms are a lot like us – we call their relationships “bonds,” and there are many different types. Each kind of atomic relationship requires a different type of energy, but they all do best when they settle into the lowest stress situation possible. The nature of the bond between atoms is related to the distance between them and, like people, it also depends on how positive or negative they are. Unlike human relationships, we can analyze exactly what makes chemical relationships work, and that’s what this episode is all about.

If you are paying attention, you will learn that chemical bonds form in order to minimize the energy difference between two atoms or ions; that those chemical bonds may be covalent if atoms share electrons, and that covalent bonds can share those electrons evenly or unevenly; that bonds can also be ionic if the electrons are transferred instead of shared: and how to calculate the energy transferred in an ionic bond using Coulomb’s Law.

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Table of Contents
Bonds Minimize Energy 01:38
Covalent Bonds 03:18
Ionic Bonds 05:37
Coulomb’s Law 05:51

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37 Comments

  1. At 0:13 they had Bert get married to Ernie on June 26th which is funny since that's the day in 2015 that the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the US but this video animated years before.

  2. "the energy between two ions equals the product of the two charges"

    "which are represented by Qs"

    "because why not"

  3. OMG this video predicted Taylor Swift's and Joe Alwyn's relationship! I know in this video they might have meant Joe Jonas though 😑 then they mentioned John Mayor then Jake Gallagher

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