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The Greeks were the first to think of atoms, Democritus defined an atom as the smallest indivisible piece of matter using the idea that if you continue to cut a material in half, you must eventually reach...

A dative covalent bond is a shared pair of electrons where the shared pair of electrons originate from the same atom.

There are 3 main types of bonding: covalent, ionic and metallic. Covalent bonding occurs when there are a shared pair of electrons between two atoms. Ionic bonding is the electrostatic attraction between ...

Firstly, you need to understand that mass= moles x relative formula mass. Using this equation and the understanding of the periodic table, you can work out the relative atomic mass of carbon which is 12 a...

Benzene is a planar molecule (all the atoms lie in one plane), and that would also be true of the Kekulé structure. The problem is that C-C single and double bonds are different lengths (C-C: 0.154 nm C=C...