How does a polar covalent compound affect melting points?

Answer 1

You have three types of bonds (essentially)

You have ionic, non polar covalent, and polar covalent. Each has a strength in bonding.

Ionic is the strongest. These will have the highest melting points (just try to melt salt for instance). The non polar covalent bonds tend to be liquids or gases at room temperature (very low melting points). Examples of these would be Methane , Benzene, ethane etc.

Polar covalent bonds have a stronger pull on the electrons and therefore tend to be higher in melting point than non polar and lower than ionic.

Answer 2

Nonpolar Covalent Compound

Answer 3

As opposed to what? A nonpolar covelent? an ionic?
Polar covalent compounds are capable of dipole-dipole inderactions while nonpolar can only have induced dipole-induced dipole interactions, so polar compounds have a higher melting point. Ionic compounds have even stronger electrostatic interactions, so ionic compounds have higher melting points than polar

Answer 4

POLAR COVALENT molecules form harder crystals and have HIGHER MELTING and boiling points. i know the answer is not very detailed and i'm not sure if it even helps, but hopefully it offers some insight.
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