No, it's covalent.
ionic? carbon needs 4 electrons to be stable and there are 4 hydrogens who each want to give one
CH4 (methane) does not have an ionic bond. It is a covalent compound where the carbon and hydrogen atoms share electrons to form bonds. The other substances listed (NaCl, NaF, MgO) have ionic bonds where electrons are transferred from one atom to another.
CO forms a covalent bond. In this molecule, carbon and oxygen share electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration. The electronegativity difference between carbon and oxygen is not large enough to form an ionic bond.
Since carbon has an electronegativity only slightly higher than hydrogen (2.55 to 2.2), it does not have enough electron affinity to steal the electron from hydrogen as in an ionic bond, but rather they just share it. Besides that, the simple definition is that ionic bonds occur between metals and nonmetals, and metallic bonds occur between metals in an alloy. Since neither carbon nor hydrogen are metals, it must be a covalent bond.
Sodium typically forms ionic bonds with other elements, such as chlorine in sodium chloride (table salt). Sodium does not form covalent bonds with hydrogen, so it does not inherently bond with hydrogen in the same way that carbon or oxygen might.
ionic? carbon needs 4 electrons to be stable and there are 4 hydrogens who each want to give one
Atoms of elements have a fixed number of electrons that can bond with other atoms. Carbon has 4 electrons that can bond with other atoms. So 4 hydrogen atoms can bond with one carbon atom.
The HF molecule is covalent. All C-F bonds are covalent.Whilst carbon and hydrogen are both about 2.5 in electronegativity, and fluorine, the most electronegative atom on the periodic table, is about 4 , the proton that would be created if the HF bond were ionic would be too intensely polarising for the ionic bond to persist. The same argument can beused to rationalise why CF4 is not C4+ (F-)4. The HF and CF bonds are both polar.
Methane is saturated. It consists of 1 carbon and 4 hydrogen atoms. An unsaturated bond can not be attached to a hydrogen atom. It requires 2 carbon atoms to have an unsaturated bond.
CH4 (methane) does not have an ionic bond. It is a covalent compound where the carbon and hydrogen atoms share electrons to form bonds. The other substances listed (NaCl, NaF, MgO) have ionic bonds where electrons are transferred from one atom to another.
CO forms a covalent bond. In this molecule, carbon and oxygen share electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration. The electronegativity difference between carbon and oxygen is not large enough to form an ionic bond.
all carbon atoms have 4 valence electrons. 4 hydrogen atoms can bond to a single carbon. That would be methane.
four 4 four
Carbon can have maximum of 4 single bonds around it, thus 4 hydrogen atoms.
There five atoms in CH4.One carbon and four Hydrogen.
There is a carbon atom.4 hydrogen atoms are bond to it
Since carbon has an electronegativity only slightly higher than hydrogen (2.55 to 2.2), it does not have enough electron affinity to steal the electron from hydrogen as in an ionic bond, but rather they just share it. Besides that, the simple definition is that ionic bonds occur between metals and nonmetals, and metallic bonds occur between metals in an alloy. Since neither carbon nor hydrogen are metals, it must be a covalent bond.