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    Super Dominator killabry's Avatar
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    Is it an ionic bond or covalent bond?

    I'm in chem and wasn't paying much attention while we did our lab so now I need to write an essay about the lab and have got half of it done (intro and first body) but now i need the scientific explanation.

    We used sodium hydroxide, zinc, pennies, and a bunsen burner to make brass pennies.

    Any help?

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    :begs and pleads:

    anybody?

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    I know this but I'm going to have to find my old Science notes from high school. I would have studied this during my final year so it won't be to hard to find those notes!

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    beyond the fact that they are on the opposite spectrum - zinc negative charged, copper positive - I honestly thought it was a Dative bond... I could be totally wrong. been some years since college.

    http://nobel.scas.bcit.ca/resource/glossary/n-r.htm

    that may help.

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    I THINK it was IONIC!
    Although I havent done chem since I was 15 and Im so Next month so I am a wee bit rusty!

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    it probably is ionic, but ionic is normally nonmetal-metal, not metal-metal.

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    Originally posted by killabry
    it probably is ionic, but ionic is normally nonmetal-metal, not metal-metal.
    Oh!
    Well i said Its been almost 5 years since I did that junk!

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    Glad to help...did it over IM cuz it's probably alot faster than sittign for the boards to load.

    [small]And I have a test on this in a week too...I'd better know this by Wednesday...


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    Originally posted by killabry
    yippee!

    KB solved my problem.

    http://www.spacesciencegroup.nsula.e...=metallicbonds
    That's good! Just found my notes and didn't find the answer to your question. Anyway it did say Brass is made up of 65% Copper & 35% Zinc. That's my science lesson for the day!

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