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Q. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a covalent compound?

KCETKCET 2012Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

Covalent bonds are directional. Therefore , covalent compounds have definite geometry, e.g., acetylene is linear , methane is tetrahedral , etc.