A candle’s wick is the fabric string that holds the flame, and it burns down at a constant slow pace when the candle is lit. The wick is usually surrounded by wax.Which is the most important property of covalent compounds that makes them useful for making candle wax?
Which best describes most covalent compounds?
For a science fair project about food and chemistry, Bill looks around his kitchen for examples of covalent compounds. What evidence can Bill use in his project to show that water (H2O) acts like other covalent compounds?
What best explains how two oxygen atoms, each with six valence electrons, can bond with each other?
Walls made of paraffin wax, a covalent compound, help keep the temperature in a room steady as night changes into day and day into night. What is the most important property of covalent compounds that allows paraffin wax to help keep a room’s temperature level?
Which is most likely a covalent compound?
The compound cyanogen (CN)2 has covalent bonds shown in this diagram.

The element carbon (C) is most likely to form covalent bonds with the element
Phosphorous (P) and chlorine (Cl) bond covalently to form the important industrial compound phosphorous trichloride. The diagrams below show the electron structures of phosphorous and chlorine.Which diagram shows how the covalent bonds most likely form in a phosphorous trichloride molecule?

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