why ionic solids are hard but brittle
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why ionic solids are hard but brittle.
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The reason why ionic compounds are hard and brittle is because the ions 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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