{"id":7207,"date":"2016-12-03T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2016-12-03T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:58:57","slug":"the-semantics-of-chemical-bond-energies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/12\/03\/the-semantics-of-chemical-bond-energies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Semantics of Chemical Bond Energies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/12\/03\/the-semantics-of-chemical-bond-energies\/\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech END -->\n<p>Recently, I received an e-mail about a product called Snatoms.\u00a0 No, this is not a new low calorie snack made out of atoms, but a clever molecular modeling kit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snatoms Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHaFFhPAoHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While listening to one of the Snatom YouTube videos, it was mentioned that atomic bonds do not \u201cstore\u201d energy.\u00a0 Since this was how I was taught, and has served me well through 40 plus years of being a chemical engineer and high school physics and chemistry teacher, I wondered what was going on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonds DON&#039;T Store Energy - Snatoms\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-Baa2yofyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Poking around on the Internet, I found a number of sites with posts that talked about chemical bond energies.\u00a0 At least one article commented that:<\/p>\n<p><em>Why do chemical bonds appear to &#8220;store&#8221; energy? They certainly &#8220;contain&#8221; energy, but energy must be added to get any energy out.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is the<a href=\"http:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.com\/apc\/members\/courses\/teachers_corner\/49039.html\"> full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, my question is, is there really a difference between saying that chemical bonds \u201cstore\u201d or that they \u201ccontain\u201d energy.\u00a0 Or is this just a game of semantics?<\/p>\n<p>Your opinion would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Store\/Multimedia-Science\">Multimedia Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I received an e-mail about a product called Snatoms.\u00a0 No, this is not a new low calorie snack made out of atoms, but a clever molecular modeling kit. &nbsp; While listening to one of the Snatom YouTube videos, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/12\/03\/the-semantics-of-chemical-bond-energies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-effective-teaching","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}