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Chemical compound

Index Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds. [1]

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  1. 92 relations: Alloy, Ammonium, Ammonium carbonate, Atom, Ball-and-stick model, Boiling point, Brittleness, Carbonate, CAS Registry Number, Chemical Abstracts Service, Chemical bond, Chemical element, Chemical formula, Chemical polarity, Chemical reaction, Chemical structure, Chemical substance, Chemical symbol, Chemistry, Chloride, Coordinate covalent bond, Coordination complex, Coulomb's law, Covalent bond, Crust (geology), Crystal structure, Diatomic molecule, Dipole, Electric charge, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Electron, Electron transfer, Electronegativity, Electrostatics, Environmental Science & Technology, Evaporation, Freezing, Glossary of chemical formulae, Halogen, Hardness, Heteronuclear molecule, Homonuclear molecule, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hydrogen, Hydrogen atom, Hydrogen bond, Hydroxide, Insulator (electricity), Intermetallic, Intermolecular force, ... Expand index (42 more) »

Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described. Chemical compound and alloy are chemistry.

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Ammonium

Ammonium is a modified form of ammonia that has an extra hydrogen atom.

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Ammonium carbonate

Ammonium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Atom

Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. Chemical compound and Atom are chemistry.

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Ball-and-stick model

In chemistry, the ball-and-stick model is a molecular model of a chemical substance which displays both the three-dimensional position of the atoms and the bonds between them.

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Boiling point

The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.

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Brittleness

A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation.

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Carbonate

A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.

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CAS Registry Number

A CAS Registry Number (also referred to as CAS RN or informally CAS Number) is a unique identification number, assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the US to every chemical substance described in the open scientific literature, in order to index the substance in the CAS Registry.

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Chemical Abstracts Service

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society.

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Chemical bond

A chemical bond is the association of atoms or ions to form molecules, crystals, and other structures.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions. Chemical compound and chemical element are chemistry.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

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Chemical polarity

In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment, with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end.

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Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Chemical compound and chemical reaction are chemistry.

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Chemical structure

A chemical structure of a molecule is a spatial arrangement of its atoms and their chemical bonds.

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Chemical substance

A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.

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Chemical symbol

Chemical symbols are the abbreviations used in chemistry, mainly for chemical elements; but also for functional groups, chemical compounds, and other entities.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.

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Chloride

The term chloride refers to a compound or molecule that contains either a chlorine ion, which is a negatively charged chlorine atom, or a non-charged chlorine atom covalently bonded to the rest of the molecule by a single bond.

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Coordinate covalent bond

In coordination chemistry, a coordinate covalent bond, also known as a dative bond, dipolar bond, or coordinate bond is a kind of two-center, two-electron covalent bond in which the two electrons derive from the same atom.

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Coordination complex

A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.

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Coulomb's law

Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest.

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Covalent bond

A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons to form electron pairs between atoms.

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Crystal structure

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material.

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Diatomic molecule

Diatomic molecules are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements.

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Dipole

In physics, a dipole is an electromagnetic phenomenon which occurs in two ways.

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Electric charge

Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

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Electrical resistivity and conductivity

Electrical resistivity (also called volume resistivity or specific electrical resistance) is a fundamental specific property of a material that measures its electrical resistance or how strongly it resists electric current.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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Electron transfer

Electron transfer (ET) occurs when an electron relocates from an atom or molecule to another such chemical entity.

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Electronegativity

Electronegativity, symbolized as χ, is the tendency for an atom of a given chemical element to attract shared electrons (or electron density) when forming a chemical bond.

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Electrostatics

Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges.

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Environmental Science & Technology

Environmental Science & Technology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1967 by the American Chemical Society.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.

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Freezing

Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.

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Glossary of chemical formulae

This is a list of common chemical compounds with chemical formulae and CAS numbers, indexed by formula. Chemical compound and Glossary of chemical formulae are chemical compounds.

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Halogen

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Hardness

In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.

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Heteronuclear molecule

A heteronuclear molecule is a molecule composed of atoms of more than one chemical element.

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Homonuclear molecule

In chemistry, homonuclear molecules, or homonuclear species, are molecules composed of only one element.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Hydrogen atom

A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen.

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Hydrogen bond

In chemistry, a hydrogen bond (or H-bond) is primarily an electrostatic force of attraction between a hydrogen (H) atom which is covalently bonded to a more electronegative "donor" atom or group (Dn), and another electronegative atom bearing a lone pair of electrons—the hydrogen bond acceptor (Ac).

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Hydroxide

Hydroxide is a diatomic anion with chemical formula OH−.

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Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.

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Intermetallic

An intermetallic (also called intermetallic compound, intermetallic alloy, ordered intermetallic alloy, long-range-ordered alloy) is a type of metallic alloy that forms an ordered solid-state compound between two or more metallic elements.

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Intermolecular force

An intermolecular force (IMF) (or secondary force) is the force that mediates interaction between molecules, including the electromagnetic forces of attraction or repulsion which act between atoms and other types of neighbouring particles, e.g. atoms or ions.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Ionic bonding

Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, or between two atoms with sharply different electronegativities, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds.

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Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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IUPAC nomenclature of chemistry

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has published four sets of rules to standardize chemical nomenclature.

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Ligand

In coordination chemistry, a ligand is an ion or molecule with a functional group that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.

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List of compounds

Compounds are organized into the following lists. Chemical compound and list of compounds are chemical compounds.

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London dispersion force

London dispersion forces (LDF, also known as dispersion forces, London forces, instantaneous dipole–induced dipole forces, fluctuating induced dipole bonds or loosely as van der Waals forces) are a type of intermolecular force acting between atoms and molecules that are normally electrically symmetric; that is, the electrons are symmetrically distributed with respect to the nucleus.

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Mantle (geology)

A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.

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Melting

Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.

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Metal

A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

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Metallic bonding

Metallic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that arises from the electrostatic attractive force between conduction electrons (in the form of an electron cloud of delocalized electrons) and positively charged metal ions.

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Mixture

A mixture is a material made up of two or more different chemical substances which can be separated by physical method. Chemical compound and mixture are chemistry.

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Molecular entity

In chemistry and physics, a molecular entity, or chemical entity, is "any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer, etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity".

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Molecule

A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion. Chemical compound and molecule are chemistry.

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Monatomic ion

A monatomic ion (also called simple ion) is an ion consisting of exactly one atom.

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Non-stoichiometric compound

Non-stoichiometric compounds are chemical compounds, almost always solid inorganic compounds, having elemental composition whose proportions cannot be represented by a ratio of small natural numbers (i.e. an empirical formula); most often, in such materials, some small percentage of atoms are missing or too many atoms are packed into an otherwise perfect lattice work.

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Octet rule

The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas.

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Oxide

An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Palladium hydride

Palladium hydride is palladium metal with hydrogen within its crystal lattice.

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Periodic table

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups").

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Polyatomic ion

A polyatomic ion (also known as a molecular ion) is a covalent bonded set of two or more atoms, or of a metal complex, that can be considered to behave as a single unit and that has a net charge that is not zero.

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Precipitation (chemistry)

In an aqueous solution, precipitation is the "sedimentation of a solid material (a precipitate) from a liquid solution".

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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Properties of water

Water is a polar inorganic compound that is at room temperature a tasteless and odorless liquid, which is nearly colorless apart from an inherent hint of blue. It is by far the most studied chemical compound and is described as the "universal solvent" and the "solvent of life". It is the most abundant substance on the surface of Earth and the only common substance to exist as a solid, liquid, and gas on Earth's surface.

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Reactivity series

In chemistry, a reactivity series (or reactivity series of elements) is an empirical, calculated, and structurally analytical progression of a series of metals, arranged by their "reactivity" from highest to lowest.

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Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral). Chemical compound and salt (chemistry) are chemical compounds.

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Silicate mineral

Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.

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Solid-state reaction route

The solid-state reaction route is the most widely used method for the preparation of polycrystalline solids from a mixture of solid starting materials.

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Solvation

Solvation describes the interaction of a solvent with dissolved molecules.

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Solvent

A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution. Chemical compound and solvent are chemical compounds.

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Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry is the relationship between the weights of reactants and products before, during, and following chemical reactions.

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Subscript and superscript

A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively.

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The Sceptical Chymist

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661.

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Transition metal

In chemistry, a transition metal (or transition element) is a chemical element in the d-block of the periodic table (groups 3 to 12), though the elements of group 12 (and less often group 3) are sometimes excluded.

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Valence electron

In chemistry and physics, valence electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outermost shell is not closed.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_compound

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