2006-10-17 04:06:34 · 6 answers · asked by abhishek b 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Bond can NOT be seen. I am not saying this because we don't have the technology. Even if we did, we wouldn't see bonds. That's like saying, how is god seen. Bonds are not physical things. They're just regions in which electrons from different atoms transfer from atom to atom, creating an attractive force between the atoms. This force is called a bond. If you could see the atoms, all you'd see is two atoms really close to each other, looking like they're kind of touching, or even overlaping.
2006-10-17 04:17:46 · answer #1 · answered by عبد الله (ドラゴン) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical species being held together by attraction to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons and is a phenomenon that is fully described by the laws of quantum electrodynamics. In general, strong chemical bonds are found in molecules, crystals or in solid metal and they organize the atoms in ordered structures.
There are weaker chemical bonds which are classically explained to be effects of polarity between molecules which contain strong polar bonds, including interactions which result from induced polarity (such as London forces) between the electron clouds. Although certain classifications of bonds may generally be classified as "strong" (covalent, ionic), or "weak" (hydrogen, van der waals), care should be taken because the strongest of the "weak" cases can be much stronger than the weakest of the "strong" bonds.
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2006-10-21 11:02:21 · answer #2 · answered by ^crash_&_burn^ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be extremely difficult to see this since atoms are smaller than the average keyboard. There are special kinds of film that they "shoot" the atom at to see the stuff inside it, i am not sure if they have an electron microscope with a high enough magnification to show individual atoms, but they most probably do.
2006-10-17 11:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by scrotumchewingmonster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not yet seen one but hey the scientists use a special device known as an electron microscope which magnifies the object upto 10,00,00,00 times .
2006-10-17 11:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by sandhyavandanam s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-ray crystallography allows us to see the electron density between atoms.
Some nice images here
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/
2006-10-17 11:50:08 · answer #5 · answered by drcjs_007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah... this one time I looked outside and these two atoms started bonding. the boy one got on top of the girl one and his tongue was hanging out... oh, sorry... those were dogs.
2006-10-17 11:14:02 · answer #6 · answered by nuejerz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋