Bonds, Chemical Bonds

 nubs!! I think i'm gonna call y'all that from now on...
But anyways, today i'm gonna talk about Chemical Bonds. 

well, you may think a chemical bond causes a chemical reaction which it does but they don't always look like this:

Chemical Bonds is basically what it sounds like. Atoms bonding, chemically! But it goes a little deeper than that, because that's just the way 8th grade science is. but as i state in every blog post, i hope you will better understand this topic by the end of the blog.
  So quick review:
atoms are basically the nucleus full of protons and neutrons surrounded by electrons that are in shells, or clouds. each shell contains a different amount of electrons. 2, 8, 16, 32 etc.
oh ya, forgot to mention. Yea those electrons i mentioned earlier, well ya they move at the speed of light, so enjoy trying to look at it moving!


So. lets talk about how chemical reactions happen. 
 well first off, the atoms need to stick together! we call then bonds. (no not bombs!)
there are two main types of chemical Bonds: Ionic, and Covalent.
Ionic Bonds occur when one atom takes an electron from another atom. that atom who got the electron stolen, becomes positive, and the atom that took the atom becomes negative. 
that is also an example of electrostatic attraction. (you have NO idea how long it took to spell that correctly!)
the two atoms are then, attracted to one another. A good example of that is Na Cl or sodium ion and Chlorine ion!
here's a pic of that ;)


Now, WHY  someone would fall in love or be attracted to someone who stole something from them, i haven't the faintest clue, but people or in this case atoms, are cray cray.
Then there are Covalent Bonds. Basically When one atom is short of electrons connects with another atom, who then shares that electron so they live happily ever after.  It's a pretty easy concept to grasp onto. 
Ha-ha i made a joke, a really bad one too... because, the atom, grasps.. onto..another atom...im just gonna close with an example of that happening..




OK that's all i have for you today! 
i hope you enjoyed reading, and if you didn't,
 oh whale,

The Periodic Table

Heyy guys!!! today I'm going to talk about the periodic table. it may seem pretty intimidating, like trying to explain the objective of Minecraft! But once you read further you should be able to understand it.

First off, The Periodic Table is a list of all the chemical elements that occur in the ENTIRE universe! It catigorizes elements according
to the proporties of their atoms. As you know, and atom is the smallest part of an atom
-HOW TO READ IT-
 
well for starters, you can read across the table, and look at the top. all of the numbers are in order. one way they are organized is by their atomic number.
^^^^^^^^^ as you see aove, this is the element HYdrogen. it is the first element on the Periodic Table, adn its atomic number is 1. next is Helium, which has anatomic number of 2 and so on.  
When you read the Table left to right, you are reading it in periods, if you are reading it up an down, youre reading it in groups.  

there are 118 elements knowqn to man, but only the first 92 are natural. the others must be made or found in a lab.



hey guys! sorry this post is so short, i've been really sick and had to finish this in homeroom, but thats pretty much all the periodic table is about. comment, blah blah blah..
sorry again that its short but,
 oh whale,

Compounds and Mixtures

OK, today I'm gonna talk about compounds and mixtures. Now it is VERYYY confusing, but with my help, hopefully, you can remember it because, It's Not Rocket Science :)

First off, I'm gonna talk about how compounds and mixtures are different from each other. Mixtures are created through PHYSICAL changes, where has compounds are created by chemical reactions.

on the left is a mixture, and on the right is a compound

COMPOUNDS:
OK, so a compound is made when atoms of 2 or more elements come together or bond in a chemical reaction. one example, water. Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and oxygen.

Now you  may be wondering, well hydrogen does't look like that, and oxygen certainly doesn't either! Well I can answer that thought- Compounds don't look anything like they did before when they were separated, or in other words, their look changes, unlike a mixture (but we'll get into that later) and it makes it very difficult to separate the 2. but there are some clever ways to do so 
1. Distillation and
2. Evaporation

MIXTURES:

To make a mixture, you blend two or more elements without combining them chemically. Weird right? And unlike a compound, which changes its appearance, mixtures keep their original properties. 

 Like in the picture above, the two ingredients are being mixed, but they are the same thing if you separated them. Lets say the brown is chocolate (which it probably is) and the white is vanilla. If you mixed them together, you would taste chocolate and vanilla. Now lets say we somehow pulled the two separate. The chocolate would still have the same properties, and so would the vanilla. 
 same with this parfait. all the ingredients are MIXED together, but you can tell they haven't changed based on the flavor.
Solids, Liquids, and Gasses, can all be blended into heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures. 
Homogeneous Mixtures-
A bottle of salt water contains salt obviously and water (again obviously) but no matter how hard you look, no matter if you have 20-20 vision, you will never see the salt crystals in the water.                       TRY BELOW  

                                       
See its impossible! 

Heterogeneous Mixtures-
a good examples of a heterogeneous mixtures are salad dressings.   as seen in this picture, you CAN see the little parts of the dressing in it. its the opposite for the salt water. So look at it real close and that disappointing feeling of not being able to see the salt crystals will fade when you can see the clumps of oil and pieces of pepper/ herbs floating in the vinegar.  




OK i'm done. I hope you guys learned something new today!! come back ever Monday/Sunday for a new post! I'm not sure what the next topic will be yet, i haven't asked yet.\
oh whale  ,
 

pictures:

1st pic Matter
Mixtures
H2o
blended
parfait
laughing smurfs
salt water
salad dressing