define the term chemical energy and how it relates to bond s

Solution

Chemical energy is the potential of a chemical species to undergo a chemical transform into another chemical substance. This is dependent upon the bond energies and the stability.

Energy is stores in molecules as chemical bonds, which are made or broken during a chemical reaction. Whether energy is needed, or produced, depends if the reaction is uphill (energy needed, transform from lower energy to higher energy state) or downhill (energy produced, transform from higher energy to lower energy state). The stronger the bond of a molecule (lower energy stable state), more will be the energy supplied to break the bond, which shows an uphill task. If a molecule transforms from a higher energy state to a lower energy state, energy is released, and the product molecule(s) are said to attain stability, and higher bond strength than the reactant.