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The simplest description is that it is ionic, and the argument is that the difference in electronegativity causes a full transfer of electrons.

It is high melting solid and certainly i not molecular.

As with many metal oxides the real bonding is somewhere between ionic and covalent, and this is particularly true for metals other than those in group1 and 2.

I personally do not like the categorisation of compounds into ionic and molecular. Many macro crystalline solids are covalent.

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