chemical bond

chemical bond

top: covalent bonding in a water molecule

center: metallic bonding in silver

bottom: ionic bonding in sodium chloride

chemical bond

n.

Any of several forces, especially the ionic bond, covalent bond, and metallic bond, by which atoms or ions are bound in a molecule or crystal.

chemical bond

n

(Chemistry) a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons. See also covalent bond, electrovalent bond, coordinate bond

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

chemical bond - an electrical force linking atoms bond attraction, attractive force - the force by which one object attracts another covalent bond - a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule cross-link, cross-linkage - a side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule hydrogen bond - a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond electrostatic bond, electrovalent bond, ionic bond - a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion metallic bond - a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs peptide bond, peptide linkage - the primary linkage of all protein structures; the chemical bond between the carboxyl groups and amino groups that unites a peptide