Learning Objectives
• Define the basic terms relating to the structure of solids, such as crystalline solid, amorphous solid, lattice, ionic, ionic solid, molecular solid, atomic solid, metallic solid and network solid.
• Describe the metallic bond as the electrostatic attraction between a lattice of positive ions and delocalized electrons.
• Explain the electrical conductivity and malleability of metals.
• Compare and explain the properties of substances resulting from different types of bonding.
• List the properties of network solids.
• Describe and compare the structures and bonding in the three allotropes of carbon.
• Describe the structure and bonding in silicon and silicon dioxide.
• List examples of molecular solids.
• Explain why some larger nonpolar molecular solids are solid at room temperature.
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