The Well Is the Bond

Two hydrogen atoms, one axis, one curve. Everything Unit 2 says about bonds — how long, how strong, why ionic solids are tough, what it costs to break one — is read off the shape of this one dip. It is Coulomb’s law from Topic 1.5, plotted. Watch the atoms fall into it.

8 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · H₂ · 432 kJ/mol AT 74 pm · v1