Water for life

## 5 Molecules and covalent bonding

### 6 Chemical language

◄Previous: 5 Molecules and covalent bonding

# 6.1 Introduction

The previous sections in this course include many terms which may have been unfamiliar to you: for example, atom, element, compound, molecule and bond. Chemistry has a language all of its own and grasping the terminology can be as much of a problem as understanding the chemistry itself. In Section 6, you will consider the language of chemistry before returning to the examination of bonding.

◄Contents►Next: 6.2 Chemical symbols

OpenLearn - Water for life
Except for third party materials and otherwise, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence, full copyright detail can be found in the acknowledgements section. Please see full copyright statement for details.