Metallic Bonding Flashcards
1
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Properties of Metals
A
Good conductors of heat, electricity
Malleable: shapes by beating
Ductile: can be drawn into a wire
Mostly solid
Room temperature
Lustrous
Hard
2
Q
…Ions
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valence electrons flows freely, they are delocalised (without drawn the big circles)
3
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Metallic bonding
A
The electrostatic attraction between the metal cations and electrons called metallic bonding.