1916

Chemical bond

• An electron buzzing
• between two nuclei
• attracts them toward each other.
• *
• Atoms stick together,
• forming molecules,
• when they share electrons.
• *
• But nuclei are kept apart
• because the electrons
• need their space.

Theories

• Isaac Newton realized particles
• adhered not by reason,
• nor by hooks,
• nor by conspiring motions.
• But a force,
• strong at small distances
• and weak farther apart,
• is responsible for chemical operations.
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius thought
• that electropositive atoms
• and electronegative atoms
• combine to bind atoms together.
• Edward Frankland and others
• thought that compounds
• were joined by the attraction
• of their positive and negative poles.

Likes

• “Attracts them toward each other,”
• like couples?
• “When they share electrons,”
• like families?
• “Need their space,”
• like people?