How atoms bond - George Zaidan and Charles Morton

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Atoms can (and do) bond constantly; it's how they form molecules. Sometimes, in an atomic tug-of-war, one atom pulls electrons from another, forming an ionic bond. Atoms can also play nicely and share electrons in a covalent bond. From simple oxygen to complex human chromosome 13, George Zaidan and Charles Morton break down the humble chemical bond.
Lesson by George Zaidan and Charles Morton, animation by Bevan Lynch.

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This was far more informative, explained much better and more easier to understand than the classes in school.

[@Sankethscs]

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[@Amir-mh7mw]

When I was in 8th grade I remember studying for a physical science class in which we mentioned nearly everything in this video from how atoms bond to even more complex information on the dynamics of an atom. I remember when I would read my book and study, I could recite the information like I memorized a verse from the Bible, surely my memory did me well when it came to test, however I could not understand or develop a mental model of what I was actually reading. This video creates such a beautiful representation on the actual nature of bonds reassuring my faith in understanding the nature of atoms. Thank you.

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You guys are just wonderful. Pictures and animations are great ways to facilitate learning if properly made. Great works.

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[@kieranmccormack2536]

I really enjoy the animation of the atoms, very clean and understandable.

[@abilenevespa]

My son loved this, they are studying ionic,covalent, metallic, and hydrogen bonding in school right now. He said he got more out of this than the power points his teacher uses.

[@menosproblemos6993]

Analogies like "...and never getting the toy back" and "Like a potluck" makes it SO much easier to visualise the concept! It's things that I've experienced myself and can relate to. Very well! 👌

[@syrup-]

Yes, using analogies can be super helpful.

[@Pendoza84]

This is something i got 16 years ago. Thanks for reminding. Very good explaining. One of your best movies imo.

[@13Gibson87]

This is great coincidence ... We've learned this on chemistry lecture yesterday. But that one took about 1,5 hour and this takes only 3,5 minutes :-)

[@LiborTinka]

extremely simplified but yeah - if this were taught this way in school I would get interested in chemistry way sooner

[@fbabka]

best animation on youtube. thank you!

[@angu4878]

Mindddd blown. You have cleared some of my questions of this study session in just minutes. I was losing interest by not getting right help, thankfully, finally the right video.

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Incredible animations!

[@sefron6207]

you taught me in 3 minutes what my teacher couldnt do in 4 weeks

[@msokiedokie123]

Where have you been all my chem life!!! Things feel a lot more clear seeing after seeing this!

[@blazenetwork3749]

This is an excellent visualization of bonding.

[@susanhellmuth3840]

I just love how you use so many different styles of animation 💓 I do have my favorites, but I like all of them

[@sapphire3799]

This is the only way I can understand anything Apart from maybe my History teacher, she's amazing and actually understands that students are people

[@ajmumbai]

Thank you for this lovely video!

[@ferika81]

Thank you so much, I like how you described the bonds.

[@ellifontanilla1520]

Thanks for making this video. It helps me.

[@confiscator]

Brilliant. Produce more just like this.

[@myneus]

This is the 2nd great video from George Zaidan and Charles Morton I have seen this week. Need more teachers like this.

[@_Rick_Astley_]

All i can say is that i have never understood bonds, these gods just described it in 3 minutes, i wish I could like the video twice, actually scratch that i wanna like it infinite times, because you, you have infinitely helped me.

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continue simplifying such concepts please

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i love this explIaning and tht its fast thanks!

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This explanation is so totally easy to understand! Thank you for your creativity!

[@Spoods17]

Lewis’s notation explains that more simply

[@finesseandstyle]

Wish my chemistry teacher could explain like that.

[@handsome_potato]

Can you do a video on mainly on Ionic bond and how bonding work with more than 2 atoms

[@nothat2202]

Great video

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Showed this to my chemistry teacher to show the class one time in high school when they got to the part where they started teaching us about chemical bonds and stuff

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Grazie, uso spesso i tuoi video in classe, le animazioni sono stupende e le spiegazioni chiarissime! Sei il mio salvatore!

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This was explained So well that I literally was trippin out! :-P Thanks bunches! Came here for wanting to learn this and you hit the nail on the head, TED-ed!

[@johndoe2]

Beautiful!

[@pixius9624]

as a 7th grade, this was still MUCH more helpful than our teachers at school, thanks!

[@peterstiles1]

Really excellent video. Could you do one on metallic bonds, please?

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[@fikruazka817]

i still can't picture them with the model of atom in quantum mechanics

[@MrDerhanswurst]

right? how do these both models fit together?

[@locke8847]

Because we cannot see atoms and only their imprint on scanning technology these models are wrong and primitive. Think of it like this.. a giant field of energy that is and isn't at the same time as well as flickering back and fourth between states. All throughout this field membrane are pinches, tweaks, flips, and twists. Because this all is all then it is also parts in retrospection and opposition to being all. To all is part and to part is all. Each atom is and isn't within its own. Each atom is created and exists in relationship to each other atom and vice versa. You define yourself by comparing or sizing yourself up to others or things-situations. This "outside" "other" things define you and help make you be what you see yourself to be. Atoms are the same.. we only know metal by comparing it to water. Water to wood and air to rock.. we learn more about something when we see what it is not and then by deduction and reduction come to a conclusion. Atoms are intersecting waves making waves that intersect and make waves. The center of an atom cannot be seen and the electron signature is the only mystery expression we have of the geni inside. Your mind picks things apart as it's functions are to split energy (ideas-functions) and connect/combined energy. Splitters and or lumpers. If reality is created by our perception and will and reality is atoms and we are atoms then we are conscious atomic reality being funneled down through a human body so that we may do whatever. When dealing with atoms and reality remember.. you ONLY have YOUR perception and or the belief in other's perceptions which is still your perception of their perception. All atoms are one and connected as a single whole. Our minds split and divide in relation to how we feel, think, want or need. Our human specimen of a body does aromatically set some perimeters in perception and application capabilities.. for example we cannot fly by flapping our arms etc. Atoms are also functions too. For example an atom "dancing" becomes and is the dancing. The singing atom literally is only the sound singing. This is how you become what you do and what you do is what you become. Some people like to name things... Some people like to know how things function. Thus things have been named things just because or named things in which they do like a hammer or a screwdriver. Take any thing or idea (all things are ideas and all ideas are things - both are buzzing energy on diff frequencies) and try to define it. Look at the dictionary. Now that word uses other words to explain and de-scribe that word so you gotta go define those words and so on. You will find that words used to explain a word don't have anything to do with that word and those words are made up of other words that only have meaning by bringing in more words without a meaning in theirself. You will deviate far from the original word or even come right back to it! In fact the word you tried to define will end up defining itself by using itself. This is insanity. So when it comes to someone really knowing you or where you are coming from... That is very rare and special. Hope this ramble sum up helps someone. RESEARCH! CORRELATE! LOVE!

[@gamingwithtrikku2371]

Hmm.. Search for Valence bond theory and hybridization. also VSEPR

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Just luv the way you explain things un this is my favoutite,,In some cases atoms could form more bonds than you would expect but they better have a really gud reason to do so,, . A masterpiece lol .

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[@salahdaoud9368]

One question: is the pull force exerted by the electron on the proton the same as the force exerted by the proton on the electron

[@gert-janroodehal7368]

Nice visuals

[@TheDanorte]

Really good video, just awesome. But isn't it missing the metallic bonds?

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Excellent :)

[@SenulD]

Thanks very useful

[@adamjames0710]

i'm doing a university degree in physics and you just described bonds in a much clearer way then my course material lol.

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[@laranjajefessor]

Entao , na ligaçao covalente, o atomo rouba o eletron do outro, assim um ficando positivo e outro negativo, o negativo, para se neutralizar, rouba devolta o eletron, ai ficando infinitamente aleatoriamente?

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really nice !## please do a video on dot structure and # redox reactions

[@miamendez2]

This video taught me so much in 4 minutes than my science teacher did in 50 minutes

[@0olong]

Really excellent stuff - nicely explained and beautifully visualised. My only quibble would be that the tug-of-war in the ionic bonding bit is almost entirely mythical - usually the two ions have already gained or lost electrons long before they meet - but the myth is still a part of standard chemistry teaching, for whatever reason, so, fair enough. :) At least you went straight from there to ionic lattices! Far too many sources stop with 'an ionic bond' forming, as if there was then a molecule of NaCl floating around...

[@angu4878]

Could you elaborate more please? About ionic bonding. Thankyou.

[@0olong]

@@angu4878 I recommend the Royal Society of Chemistry's 'Chemical Misconceptions' on this. If you have any specific questions, though, I'm happy to try and answer them here.

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Me learned something, me like!

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what a way o teach

[@neonpop80]

So how do molecules bond/stick together?

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thanks

[@Number1OnlineGamer]

Just learnt this in school! THANKS

[@JBulsa]

The pull of the nucleus keeps them attracted in a different location at all times. good question. watch quantum mechanics for a visual display.

[@haridasmahato4325]

On what basis do elements combine with other elements like in HCl + H2O → H3O+ + Cl- why the reaction doesn't look like HCl + H2O → H3ClO

[@paysonkeown2960]

H3ClO is energetically unstable, so if the atoms were in the position to form this or H3O+/Cl-, they would form the lower energy H3O+/Cl-.

[@EXQCmoi]

How can electrons form pairs within an orbital when both have negative a charge?

[@aprimoramentopessoal9065]

XQCmoi Because of spin. One electron has spin +1/2, an the other -1/2

[@Collins1dan]

lol. Yes. This is due to Quantum Mechanics. Just accept it and move on haha....

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Excelente

[@pigun6960]

How do electrons behave in covalent bond though? Are they trapped in one place and don't orbit own atom nucleus anymore or do they orbit both atoms nuclei?

[@paysonkeown2960]

They orbit both in a shared orbital.

[@marymukobe]

Thanks for the video, really help explain more the just reading 😂

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[@ahamedakmal7104]

so do electron pair in covalent bonds rotate the nuclei (like other electrons)

[@ShadowKick32]

eletrons dont rotate or orbit at all, it's just a way to represent atoms but it's innacurate. It's just made this way to be easier to explain without using quantum physics.

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[@ruddey8488]

At 2:08 you explained how only the outermost electrons would participate in bonding, however for transition metals if the outermost electrons are removed som from other energy levels may participate in bonding as well.

[@physicsphysics1956]

The "mettalic bond" term was not claimed until 2014.

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in 3 minutes i learned what my teachers could not properly explain to me in 3 weeks.

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I had a test on this today

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Is Hydrogen Carbon3 Oxygen7 possible?

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[@beenachand5763]

How to form a bond of single sodium and sulphur please tell me

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Why ado valence electrons have the most energy?

[@Void_Knight]

So can iron bond with copper

[@jankopp6005]

i get why two water atoms do a covalent bond, the have the same amount of electrons&protons, but why is the O of h2o not taking away the electrons of the water atoms, it has a stronger "magnetic" force? what am I missing? :D

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figured it out already ^^

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after giving an electron sodium get positively and chlorine get negatively charged .then one negatively charged chlorine and one sodium should eliminate the negative-positive charge. but why sodium ion or chlorine ion paired with six other as mentioned in the video?

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0:16 OH i get it

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and metallic bond?

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what of it ?

[@cimiv]

The entire phosphodiester backbone and the purine or pyrimidine bases are held together with covalent bonds. Hydrogen bonding only enables base pairing between two strands. Without the H-bonds, double-stranded DNA wouldn't form (nor would interesting secondary structures in ssDNA or ssRNA, but that's another story), so they are critical, but you only get 2 per A-T pair or 3 per G-C pair, while each nucleotide comprises more than 30 covalent bonds.

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It's good to be the first one!! Not only to comment, but to watch as well!!