Ionic Solids, Metals, and Alloys: How Solids Are Built

Name: Ionic Solids, Metals, and Alloys: How Solids Are Built
Description: Why does a copper wire bend where a salt crystal cracks, and why does adding a little carbon turn soft iron into steel? Draw the particles and the answers are already in the picture.

Why does a copper wire bend where a salt crystal cracks, and why does adding a little carbon turn soft iron into steel? Draw the particles and the answers are already in the picture.

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01Model an ionic solid as a repeating array that maximizes attractions and minimizes repulsions
02Model a metal as cations in a sea of delocalized electrons
03Distinguish interstitial from substitutional alloys and predict how each changes the metal

In unit 2

2.1Types of Bonds and the Energy of Holding Atoms Together
2.2Ionic Solids, Metals, and Alloys: How Solids Are Built
2.3Lewis Diagrams, Resonance, and Formal Charge
2.4The Shapes of Molecules: VSEPR, Hybridization, and Polarity