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What type of bonding ionic or covalent would you find in aluminium and chlorine?
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∙ 11y ago
The electronegativity difference between Al and Cl is 1.55. This is borderline covalent/ionic. Aluminium trichloride solid has six coordinate aluminum atoms. As you heat it just before the melting point the conductivity rises then falls as the solid melts. In the molten state aluminum trichloride is dimeric, Al2Cl6, with four coordinate aluminium atoms.
The explanation is that the solid is more "ionic" and ions become mobile just before the melting point. At the melting point the neutral dimer is produced and the conductivity falls to zero. The bonding mode probably does not change in all of this
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