Ionic and covalent compounds
A brief description of the properities of ionic and covalent compounds.
- Created by: Alacoque98
- Created on: 07-02-14 19:37
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- Ionic and Covalent compounds.
- Covalent compounds
- Shared electrons
- Simple molecular
- Oxygen, nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide.
- poor conductors of electricity
- bonds easily broken
- Giant molecular
- Diamond
- Very hard
- Does not conduct electricity
- Graphite
- arranged in layers
- conductor becuase electrons are free to move between layers
- is soft so it can be used as lubricant
- Diamond
- Ionic compounds
- strong bonds
- a lot of energy is needed to break the bonds. High melting and boiling points
- only conducts electricity when molten and when in aqueous solution
- lattice strucutre
- contains ions
- strong bonds
- Covalent compounds
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