Stoichiometric Basics: Chemistry for Kids!

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I stopped making entries this past month. I wasn't sure what direction I wanted to take the blog ...

I've had some comments on this blog leading me to believe that these posts are helping students. I'd like to know more about who yo...

This by far the best diagram I've seen for determining polarity based on shape. I've taught f...

The top figure here shows the trends of electronegativity on the periodic table. The concept of electronegativity can be most simply ...

At this point a discussion of the periodic table is useful. A look at the periodic table helps you understand why certain elements share...

 If we strictly talk about the base unit of an ionic compound and the base unit of a covalent compound we can show pictorially the physica...

So if covalently bonded structures do not form lattices of repetitive atoms then what kind of molecular arrangements do they form? In a c...