A covalent bond, also called a molecular bond, is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms. These electron pairs are known as shared pairs or bonding pairs, and the stable balance of attractive and repulsive forces between atoms, when they share electrons, is known as covalent bonding.
You can identify a compound to be an alcohol when it has a hydrocarbon chain and a hydroxyl functional group or -OH group. Also, from the name, you can tell that it is an alcohol is the suffix -ol is present. Examples are ethanol and methanol. Alcohol is any organic substance that contains an hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom that is saturated. Alcohols can be classified as primary, secondary or tertiary depending on where the hydroxyl functional group is attached in the hydrocarbon chain. It is a primary alcohol when OH is attached to the first carbon atom. Secondary alcohol, and tertiary alcohols has a general formula CHROH and CR2OH, respectively where R represents a hydrocarbon chain.<span />
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Mechanical waves travel through matter, causing it to vibrate, expand and contract, move up and down, side to side, or in circles. They include water waves, sound waves, and seismic waves. ... They all travel at the same speed — the speed of light — in a vacuum, but when they come into contact with matter, they slow down.
