Chemistry: Structure and bonding: Covalent bonding | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What is the name give to the large, cage like structure carbon can form using covalent bonds?

Fullerene or Bucky-ball

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What is the difference between graphite and graphene

Graphene has only 1 layer of carbon atoms. Graphite has many layers

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Can simple molecules held together with covalent bonds conduct electricity?

No, they do not have charged particles that a free to move.

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What is the diameter of a Buckyball?: 1m, 1mm, 1cm, 1um, 1nm.

1nm (nanometer)

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What is the name of the intermolecular forces between water molecules?

Hydrogen bonds

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What is the name given to a sheet of graphene which has been rolled into a tube.

Carbon nanotube

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Why can the layers of graphite easily slide off (e.g. when you use a pencil)?

The bonds between carbon layers are not covalent, they are weak intermolecular forces

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Most of the molecules in the substances that make up living things are held together by the covalent bonds between non-metal atoms [True/False]

True

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Do giant covalent structures have high or low melting points?

High - the covalent bonds are strong.

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How many covalent bonds have formed between these two nitrogen atoms?

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What does it mean if an atom "gets the electronic structure of a Noble gas"?

They gain or lose electrons to get a full outer shell (just like the Noble gas elements)

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Atoms held together by covalent bonds only form small "simple" structures [True/False]

False - they can form giant structures also like diamond.

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The smallest Fullerene/Buckyball is made of 60 atoms of which element?

Carbon

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