Teaching the bonding spectrum

By Dorothy Warren and Martin Bluemel2023-09-04T06:52:00

A diagram showing the increasing strength of force for different kinds of bonding - London dispersion forces, dipole-dipole interactions, hydrogen bonds and ionic bonding

Source: © Dan Bright

Everything you need to help your post-16 grasp the realities of bonding, electronegativity and intermolecular forces

Everything you need to teach post-16 learners bonding, electronegativity and intermolecular forces. Display the poster in your classroom and use the fact sheet to help your students understand the different types of chemical bond, from pure covalent to ionic, including London dispersion forces, van der Waals, dipole–dipole and hydrogen. Download the accompanying classroom activity to demonstrate the interplay between physical properties and bonding type, the trends in electronegativity across the periods and down the groups, and intermolecular forces.

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