Metallic Bonding

• Metals have a giant lattice structure
• Metal Properties:

  • High Melting Point
  • Conducts Electricity
  • Malleable
• Metals are malleable because:

  • They are arranged in layers
  • They can easily slide over each other
• Metals have a high melting point:

  • Lots of strong bonds between the atoms
  • Strong electrostatic forces between atoms
  • Lots of energy required to break these many strong bonds
• Metals can conduct electricity because:

  Of it's delocalised electrons which carry charge through the structure