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Metallic Bonding
Metallic Bonding only occurs between metals, it is the strong attraction between closely packed positive metal ions and a sea of electrons, it can also be described as the sharing of free electrons among a lattice of positively charged metal ions. The electrons that participate in metallic bonds delocalize which forms a sea of electrons which surround the positive metal ions. Metallic bonds are strong and hard to break, that is why they have high melting and boiling points. Atoms in a metal are also arranged into a regular manner-into an orderly and compact manner.
Intermolecular forces are forces that act between molecules, the intermolecular forces in metallic bonding is weaker than that found in covalent and ionic bonding.
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