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What are some examples of household products that contain covalent bonds?

Bill Chen  Follow

The Covalent Bond formed in DIAMOND is the strongest as far as I know.

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Bruce R. Miller  Follow

No household products contain formaldehyde that I am aware of. However it is found in varying degrees in household objects made using some types of wood products. Plywood, partical board, MDF and in industrial glues. The goverments all over the world are limiting it's usage where possible.

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Barry Hall  Follow

Quora seems to be picky about adding a bunch of text and not just the answers to simple questions. They also do not like web links with short answers. So below is the answer to your question and if websites are appropriate, you will need to do the searches yourself based on the information in the answers.

Answer - any food will have covalent bonds. Others include anything plastic, most cleaning products.

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Dipim Gautam  Follow

Depends on the definition of “high”, but in the 500v and up range, here is what I can think of:

Starters for gas cookers, hot water heaters and furnaces.

Electrostatic air cleaners in AC systems.

LCD displays and screens, older TV/computer CRTs

Electrostatic speakers

There may well be others that I have missed.

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Donald Propp  Follow

There are millions of carbon compounds alone which contain covalent bonds in them. Among the household products,we may consider materials like grains, pulses, sugar, tea, coffee, fruits, vegetables, cotton, silk, wool, nylon, polyester, coal and petroleum products (used as fuels), wood, paper, rubber, plastic, leather, dyes, detergents and medicines. Besides, covalent bonds are present in oxygen gas and water, without which we can't survive.

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Donna Bianca  Follow
  • A covalent bond forms between two non-metals by sharing electrons, so an example could be "Water, H2O" as it is formed by the share of electrons of hydrogen and oxygen (which are both non-metals). And another example of acovalent bond coud "Carbon dioxide, CO2"
  • There are four main types of non covalent bonds in biological systems: hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, vander Walls interactions, and hydrophobic bonds.

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Dave Calhoun  Follow

Take an”Organic chemistry” textbook and look at the chemical structures there.

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Dapid Candra  Follow

Covalent bonds are chemical bonds in which 2 atoms share electrons with each other. For example, in the hydrogen molecule (H2) you have a simple covalent bond. The hydrogen atoms share their electrons so that they can be stable (filling the first orbital, 1s). In O2, you have a double covalent bond, since oxygen needs to share 2 electrons to be stable, and in N2 you have a triple covalent bond, since nitrogen needs to share 3 electrons to be stable.

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