We’re all familiar with sugar, that tasty white matter we bake into our cookies and stir into our drinks, but what you may know as “sugar” is actually only one of many chemical compounds. On ...

Explain that sucrose has polar areas caused by the same type of oxygen–hydrogen covalent bonds as in the water molecule. Point out the O–H bonds on the outer edges of the molecule. Point out that the ...

A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons -or electrostatic ...

Chemistry students the world over are familiar with covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise ...

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Sucrose has many O–H bonds which are polar. These polar areas are shown with a + near the hydrogen atom and a − near the oxygen atom. The second space-filling model shows two sucrose molecules held ...