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Covalent compounds are bad conductors of electricity.Why?
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Answered by MsHemmoPenguin
because covalent bonds are formed by sharing of electrons..they don't hv a free electron that is required for electricity transfer(electricity is the flow of free electrons!) thus they re bad conductors.. but ionic compounds are good cond bcoz of the same reason
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