Question

what has tge strongest bond

Answer 1

James Bond. 8)
Jk, let's see something!

Answer 2

crazy glue

Answer 3

insane glue

Answer 4

though I must say a "tick" is a tough competition for crazy glue

Answer 5

You mean the insects? or w/e creature ticks are.

Answer 6

Covalent bonds?

Answer 7

heheh, critter tick.... I had one once... she was tough

Answer 8

How'd you know it was a she? Did you look to see if it had a really small pee-pee or nothing?

Answer 9

Covalent bonds vs Ionic Bonds...

Round 1...FIGHT!!

Ionic bonds wins by... FATALITY!

Answer 10

o.o Covalent bonds are stronger lol.

Answer 11

Actually it's not really a fatality I guess. Either way, ionic and covalent are kinda just different levels of the same bond.

Answer 12

@iPwnBunnies http://www.decodedscience.com/chemical-bond-strongest/38154

"It turns out that most ionic bonds are considerably more difficult to break than covalent bonds"

Answer 13

This is madness.

Answer 14

This seems like a very unspecific question, actually... it depends, is really what it comes down to.

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=646126

Answer 15

Ok, I meangenerally, a covalent bond would be stronger. HF would have a pretty strong bond compared to an ionic compound of F. I'm using F b/c it's the most electronegative I guess.

Answer 16

Yeah, but like you'll see in that link, is basically "it depends".

Questions like this aren't good questions imo (not for a test, i mean).

Answer 17

Lol, yeah

Answer 18

If this was a true false question it'd suck. If it's a short answer problem it's not so bad. The covalent bonds are generally stronger, but it's not like every covalent bond > every ionic bond.

Answer 19

Things like this make it more confusing, from the above link

"The strongest bond found in nature, between C and O in Carbon Monoxide (Bond enthalpy > 1000 KJ/mol) is due to 2 Covalent and 1 Co-ordinate (Stronger than Covalent) bonds. Conclusion, each individual covalent bond is weaker than ionic bond, but united, they are stronger than ionic bonds"

Answer 20

Perhaps, can transition metals create covalent bonds, or am I just silly thinking about that lol.

Answer 21

Interesting.

Answer 22

I don't *think* it's possible for metals to...

Answer 23

http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/5734/why-dont-metals-form-covalent-bonds-in-bulk-metal

but of course, they can!

Answer 24

Oh, metallic bonds. Don't know much about them.

Answer 25

Yeah I remember those, but not much about them.

"Certain allotropes (phases) of metals have no metal qualities such as alpha-tin. Formed at about 13.2 degrees celcius with pure tin- it has no metallic qualities and pure covalent bonds"

Answer 26

Intersting interesting.

Answer 27

This is what alpha tin looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXB83Heh3_c

Answer 28

That's pretty cool. 8)