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Ionic compounds have higher melting and boiling points than molecular compounds do. The electronegativity difference in ionic compounds makes their bond much stronger.
Ionic compounds are conventionally represented by chemical formulas; but after contemporary knowledge ionic compounds have complex, long chain molecules.
Ionic solids dissociates into ions and molecular solids just disintegrate.
Ionic compounds contain ionic compounds whereas molecular compounds contain covalent bonds in their molecules.
In molecular compounds, atoms are joined by covalent bonds, while in ionic compounds, they are joined by ionic bonds.
Ionic compounds have higher melting and boiling points than molecular compounds do. The electronegativity difference in ionic compounds makes their bond much stronger.
Your question is not rigorous. An ionic compound is also a molecule.
Ionic compounds are conventionally represented by chemical formulas; but after contemporary knowledge ionic compounds have complex, long chain molecules.
Ionic solids dissociates into ions and molecular solids just disintegrate.
Ionic compounds contain ionic compounds whereas molecular compounds contain covalent bonds in their molecules.
In molecular compounds, atoms are joined by covalent bonds, while in ionic compounds, they are joined by ionic bonds.
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Many ionic compounds exist as crystals but covalent compounds as molecules (there are exceptions as diamond though). Ionic compounds would be good electrical conductors unlike molecular compounds.
Once you get into the realm of compounds you are really looking at two types---ionic and molecular. Molecular compounds are made up of all the same type of molecule, and those molecules consist of a series of atoms covalently bonded together. The molecular formula of a molecular compound gives the number of each type of atom that makes up the molecule. Ionic compounds are different---there are no definable molecules present, just lattices of alternating positive and negative ions (charged atoms). So unlike molecular compounds there is no definable subunit in an ionic compound. Instead ionic compounds are represented by the simplest ratio of ions in the compound. For instance, in table salt there is one sodium ion per chlorine ion so the formula is NaCl. that does not mean there are little NaCl molecules making up the compound, just that the ratio of those two ions is 1:1. In calcium chloride there are two chloride ions for every calcium ion, so its formula is CaCl2. So the simple answe to the question is that molecular formulas are not used for ionic compounds because they are not comprised of molecules. That does not keep people (even chemists) from referring to the formulas of ionic compounds as "molecular formulas" but it is technically a misnomer. Simply calling them "formulas" or "ionic formulas" would be more appropriate.
Molecular. (Molecular and covalent compounds are the same).
Ionic compounds conduct electricity while molecular compounds do not
Ionic compounds are generally made up of nonmetals and metals, while molecular compounds are normally made up of nonmetals only.