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Can you predict the coordination number of an ion from the formula of an ionic compound?
Can you predict the charge of an ion from the formula of an ionic compound?What is the coordination number in an ionic compound?How do you find the n...
Why are ions in an ionic compound attracted to each other?
3) Why are ions in an ionic compound attracted to each other? They attract because one is positive and one is negative and opposites attract. What att...
Why are ions unable to move freely through the membrane?
Large polar or ionic molecules, which are hydrophilic, cannot easily cross the phospholipid bilayer. Charged atoms or molecules of any size cannot cro...
Why do ions in an ionic compound form regular patterns?
The ions have a regular, repeating arrangement called an ionic lattice . The lattice is formed because the ions attract each other and form a regular ...