steel
a mixture of carbon and iron
mixtures
- e.g. air, tap water
element
- e.g. oxygen, buckminsterfullerene (C60)
why are metals malleable?
the metal ions can move relative to each other while maintaining the metallic bonding
why do metals have high mp/bp?
there is a strong overall attraction between the positive metal ions and the negative delocalised electrons
the bond angles between a molecule result from repulsion between…
bonded pairs of electrons