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Ionic compounds are hard yet brittle..Give reason

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Answered by saurabh2212
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Ionic solids are hard and brittle. The reason why ionic compounds are brittle is because theions in the compound are already held rigidly in place in a lattice due to the strong electrostatic forces of attraction in between the cations and the anions as well as the repulsion in the ions with like charges 
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