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Single covalent bond — OCR GCSE Chemistry B Definition | GradeGen

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Single covalent bond

GCSE Chemistry · key term

Single covalent bond

Definition

A covalent bond containing one shared pair of electrons.

Used by OCR

How each exam board covers it

OCR GCSE Chemistry B · J258

Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)

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OCR Chemistry B past papers

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