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| | Covalent bond - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | However, covalent bonding in metals and, particularly between metals and organic compounds is particularly important, especially in industrial catalysis and process chemistry, where many indispensible reactions depend on covalent bonding with metals. |
 | | Pure covalent bonds (which has low melting points, are usually non-soluble, non-conductive, and tend to exist as individual molecules), and ionic bonds (which conversely have high melting points, are soluble, conductive, and generally tend to exist in a crystaline form) are on two opposite ends of the figurative spectrum, and have totally different properties. |
 | | An example of a double bond is nitrous acid (between N and O), and an example of a triple bond is in hydrogen cyanide (between C and N). |
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