Comment on the nature of the bonds you would expect to find in each of the compounds MgS and PH3?
1 Answer
Nov 6, 2017
Well in the one instance you have a metal and a non-metal.....a salt in other words....
Explanation:
....and in the other instance you have the hydride of a non-metal.
We would expect the salt to be non-molecular and ionic, and this is indeed the case for