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Carbon can bond with many elements, including hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and nitrogen.
polar covalent
double covalent bonds
oxygen normally forms a convalent bond with one or two other oxygen atoms. as well as oxygen atoms forming oxygen molecules, oxygen atoms tend to form bonds with most of the other elements to form oxides. oxygen atoms on there own are rare. as for phosphorous.........
It has both . Na3PO4 separates into 3Na^(+) & PO4^(3-_/ The sodium to phosphate bond is IONIC. However, the oxygen to phosphorus bond in the phosphate anion is COVALENT.
The single bond length between oxygen and phosphorus is 176 picometers but I am unsure of the double bond length.
Polar Covalent Bond
Carbon can bond with many elements, including hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and nitrogen.
The bond between phosphorus and fluorine atoms is more polar than the bond between phosphorus and chlorine atoms.
polar covalent
The bond between Ag ,silver and phosphate is the ionic bond, but within phosphate ion oxygen and phosphorus form covalent bond ( one oxygen bond is coordinate covalent).
double covalent bonds
oxygen normally forms a convalent bond with one or two other oxygen atoms. as well as oxygen atoms forming oxygen molecules, oxygen atoms tend to form bonds with most of the other elements to form oxides. oxygen atoms on there own are rare. as for phosphorous.........
The bond between phosphorus and oxygen are actually covalent. Eventhough those bonds are also with slight ionic characters. It violently reacts with water to form phosphoric acid.
It has both . Na3PO4 separates into 3Na^(+) & PO4^(3-_/ The sodium to phosphate bond is IONIC. However, the oxygen to phosphorus bond in the phosphate anion is COVALENT.
Phosphorus pentoxide is a covalent bond, not a ionic. -Emiko Bunny
Phosphorus is a nonmetallic element so phosphorus-phosphorus bonds are covalent.