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Brittle Properties of Ionic Compounds? [closed]
From my understanding, ionic compounds are brittle due to the alternating cations and anions within their lattice. Hence when stress is applied, similarly charged ions will repel causing the structure ...
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Lattice energy while bond formation [closed]
My chemistry lecturer taught us that lattice energy is the energy required to break an ionic bond between two oppositely charged ions in a crystal lattice.
He then told us that lattice energy is ...
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