I didn't quite know where we would be at any given time and I think we discovered this as we went along."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

So, we're going to start with talking about bonding, and any time we have a chemical bond, basically what we're talking about is having two atoms where the arrangement of their nuclei and their electrons are such that the bonded atoms results in a lower energythan for the separate atoms.

那么，下面我们将从成键开始讲起，无论什么时候我们有一个化学键，基本上我们所讨论的,都是如何安排两个原子的原子核的位置,与电子的位置使得成键的两个原子,最终比分开时的能量更低。

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