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What are the different types of bonding in chemicals?

There are 2 types of bonding in chemicals; ionic bonding and covalent bonding. Both of these aim to fill the outer shells of the atoms. You can also have bonds between molecules called intramolecular b...

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What is an isotope?

Isotopes are different forms of the same element by mass. While an atom is classified as a particular element based on the number of ...

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Explain the trend in Ionisation energy when moving across a period and down a group

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Ionisation energy is the energy required to remove one mole of electrons from

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Explain why the second ionisation energy of boron is higher than the first ionisation energy of boron?

Boron is the 5th element in the periodic table, and has an electron configuration 1s²2s²2p¹. The first ionization energy of Boron is the energy required to remove the sing...

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What's the difference between an electrophile and a nucleophile?

It's really useful to know that 'phile' means love.Electrophiles 'love' negative charge - this means they are attracted to regions of negative charge. And as such they tend to be positively charged.Simila...

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