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Atoms sticking together in molecules or crystals are said to be bonded with one another.
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A chemical bond may be visualized as the multipole balance between the positive charges in the nuclei and the negative charges oscillating about them.
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More than simple attraction and repulsion, the energies and distributions characterize the availability of an electron to bond to another atom.
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A chemical bond can be a covalent bond, an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond or just because of Van der Waals force.
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Each of these kind of bond is ascribed to some potential.
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These potentials create the interactions which hold atoms together in molecules or crystals.
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In many simple compounds, Valence Bond Theory, the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion model (VSEPR), and the concept of oxidation number can be used to explain molecular structure and composition.
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Similarly, theories from classical physics can be used to predict many ionic structures.
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