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Covalent bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | 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). |
 | | A single bond usually consists of one sigma bond, a double bond of one sigma and one pi bond, and a triple bond of one sigma and two pi bonds. |
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