Wiki Page, CHEM 109 General Chemistry I 41650: Chapter 8 Overview

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Chapter 8 is all about bonding! In this chapter you will learn some of the most important tools a chemists possesses- the ability to DRAW molecules!! You will learn how to represents the various types of bonds- ionic, covalent, and metallic- and begin to understand how the electron configurations we learned about in chapter 7 are necessary to draw these chemical structures.

We will start the chapter with the work of American chemist, Gilbert Lewis, who proposed that atoms form bonds by sharing electrons and devised a clever way of drawing molecules, now called Lewis structures.