In group IV, the upper elements, carbon can form a giant covalent structure with pure carbon. Under carbon, silicon can form a giant covalent structure with oxygen. Under it, metals come out and they can only form metallic bond.
It is non-metal----> metalloid----> metal when down a group.
I think that metals are metals not because they are metals. But they got the properties of metals. That means they got the properties of metals first, so people classify them into metal. And I think non-metal and metalloid are the same.
What I want to ask is elements in same group, got the same number of outermost shell electrons, but why their properties change down a group? From non-metal to metal. Why elements in the upper of group IV covalent bond together but elements under them become metallic bond? What cause this?
Last, only group IV can form giant covalent structure, so there would be giant covalent structure form by carbon and silicon only, right?
2007-12-16
19:50:37
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