Ionic or covalent?
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- Electrostatic attraction between ions
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- Ionic bonding
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- Gives the concept of electrovalency
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- Ionic bonding
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- Forms a crystal lattice
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- Ionic bonding
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- Sharing of electron pairs
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- Covalent bonding
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- Described first by Lewis
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- Covalent bonding
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- Can be single, double or triple
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- Covalent bonding
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- Ionic bonding
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- Covalent bonding
One transfers electrons and holds by electrostatic attraction
the other shares them. Source: syllabus Chemistry, Ch 4 Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure.
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