molecule

     

In chemistry, a molecule is efined as a sufficiently stable electrically neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds . It can also be defined as a unit of two or more atoms held together by covalent bonds. In organic chemistry and biochemistry, the term molecule is used less strictly and also is applied to charged organic molecules and biomolecules. Molecules are distinguished from polyatomic ions in this strict sense.

Trivia about molecule

  • It's the smallest unit of a substance that shows all the chemical properties of that substance
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a sugar cube.) At sea level, at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 1 cubic centimeter of air, the size of a sugar cube, contains 45 billion billion of these, from the Latin for "little mass"
  • Consisting of 3 atoms, water is an example of a triatomic one of these units
  • O2 is a diatomic one of these units of a pure substance; H2O is polyatomic