14 Facts About Ionic compounds

Ionic compounds containing basic ions hydroxide or oxide are classified as bases.

Ionic compounds can be produced from their constituent ions by evaporation of their solvent, precipitation, freezing, a solid-state reaction, or the electron transfer reaction of reactive metals with reactive non-metals, such as halogen gases.

Ionic compounds typically have high melting and boiling points, and are hard and brittle.

Ionic compounds can be produced from their constituent ions by evaporation, precipitation, or freezing.

Insoluble ionic compounds can be precipitated by mixing two solutions, one with the cation and one with the anion in it.

Ions in ionic compounds are primarily held together by the electrostatic forces between the charge distribution of these bodies, and in particular, the ionic bond resulting from the long-ranged Coulomb attraction between the net negative charge of the anions and net positive charge of the cations.

Ionic compounds are rarely purely ionic, i e held together only by electrostatic forces.

Ionic compounds containing hydrogen ions are classified as acids, and those containing electropositive cations and basic anions ions hydroxide or oxide are classified as bases.

In such cases, the Ionic compounds generally have very high melting and boiling points and a low vapour pressure.

Ionic compounds have long had a wide variety of uses and applications.

Many ionic compounds are so widely used in society that they go by common names unrelated to their chemical identity.

For example, fluoride containing Ionic compounds are dissolved to supply fluoride ions for water fluoridation.

Solid ionic compounds have long been used as paint pigments, and are resistant to organic solvents, but are sensitive to acidity or basicity.

In chemistry, ionic compounds are often used as precursors for high-temperature solid-state synthesis.