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Can ionic and/or metallic bonding produce stable long chains? Like polymers, though not necessarily as useful [closed]
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Polymers are long chains ⛓️ of covalent bonds.
Can similar structures exist for ionic and/or metallic bonding? They don't have to be as useful.
I know there can be polymers with ionic bonds ...
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Are salts (e.g. NaCl) soluble in liquid metals?
I'm curious whether any salt would at all dissolve in a liquid metal, such as gallium, mercury, or some other metal in the liquid phase?
A Google search of "solubility of NaCl in Mercury" ...
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Metallic character of bonds?
Why in discussions of percent character of bonds, are only ionic and covalent bondings discussed? Do bonds not have a partial metallic character, and are either metallic and ionic-covalent?
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Is PbO ionic compound?
In IIT-JAM 2018, There was one question: "which one of the following oxides are ionic?" I have selected $\ce{PbO}$ but according to the official answer key, $\ce{PbO}$ isn't ionic.
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Ionic Compounds [closed]
Do elements share chemical or physical properties in an ionic compound?
I mean if a metal would have an ionic compound with a nonmetal would the compound have physical properties of the metal and ...
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Why does Fluorine have a high affinity for Calcium?
I keep hearing from several websites and videos that Fluorine seems to like bonding to Calcium specifically; can someone please tell me why? I can't seem to find a clear response on the internet. ...
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Why do Ca-Ca distances get shorter in ionic structures, as compared to the metal?
I saw in the book Chemistry of the Elements by Greenwood & Earnshaw, 2nd ed., p 66, that the distance between calcium atoms decrease when it's forming an ionic structure.
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Alkalide compounds
I have read much more about metallic hydrides but I am totally confused about "inverse alkali hydrides" or "hydrogen alkalides" while reading refer to this. What are these compounds and how do they ...
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Would tin (II) sulfide be considered a covalent network solid?
Considering that tin has a Pauling electronegativity of 1.96 and sulphur 2.58, and that a bond is considered to be ionic with a Pauling EN difference of approx. 1.7 at the least, would tin (II) ...
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Will selenium react or bond, ionic or covalent, with vanadium?
I was recently asked if $\ce{Se}$ will bond with $\ce{V}$, creating a compound $\ce{SeV}$ . I am not sure if this is even possible but if so I'd like to find out.
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Comparing the strength of metallic bonds [closed]
Why is the boiling point of iron higher than magnesium?
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Solubility of gold salt solution?
I was wondering what salts of gold are soluble and which are insoluble. From what I understand, silver is soluble as silver nitrate but insoluble as most other common salts like chlorides and ...
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Are metallic/ionic bonds weaker than covalent bonds?
In mineralogy class, I was taught that metallic and ionic bonds are weaker than covalent bonds and that's why quartz and diamond have such a high hardness value. However, in organic chemistry class, I ...
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