{"id":219130,"date":"2025-05-25T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=219130"},"modified":"2025-05-25T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:03:49","slug":"which-molecule-or-compound-below-contains-an-ionic-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/25\/which-molecule-or-compound-below-contains-an-ionic-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Which molecule or compound below contains an ionic bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which molecule or compound below contains an ionic bond?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SiF4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OCl2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C2Cl4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CO2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NH4NO3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer:<\/strong> <strong>NH\u2084NO\u2083 (Ammonium nitrate)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine which compound contains <strong>an ionic bond<\/strong>, we need to understand the nature of bonding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ionic bonds<\/strong> form between <strong>metals and nonmetals<\/strong>, or between <strong>polyatomic ions<\/strong> where one ion donates electrons to another, creating oppositely charged ions that attract each other.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Covalent bonds<\/strong>, by contrast, involve the <strong>sharing of electrons<\/strong> between nonmetals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s analyze each option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>SiF\u2084 (Silicon tetrafluoride)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Silicon (a metalloid) and fluorine (a nonmetal) form <strong>covalent bonds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Though fluorine is highly electronegative, the bonds are <strong>polar covalent<\/strong>, not ionic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>OCl\u2082 (Dichlorine monoxide)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oxygen and chlorine are both nonmetals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This molecule has <strong>covalent bonds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>C\u2082Cl\u2084 (Tetrachloroethylene)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carbon and chlorine are both nonmetals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bonds here are <strong>covalent<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CO\u2082 (Carbon dioxide)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carbon and oxygen are nonmetals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This compound has <strong>covalent bonds<\/strong>, specifically <strong>double bonds<\/strong> between carbon and oxygen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NH\u2084NO\u2083 (Ammonium nitrate)<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is an <strong>ionic compound<\/strong> made up of two <strong>polyatomic ions<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>NH\u2084\u207a (ammonium)<\/strong>: a positively charged ion (cation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NO\u2083\u207b (nitrate)<\/strong>: a negatively charged ion (anion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bond <strong>between<\/strong> NH\u2084\u207a and NO\u2083\u207b is <strong>ionic<\/strong>, due to electrostatic attraction between opposite charges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within each ion, atoms are held together by <strong>covalent bonds<\/strong>, but the attraction between the two ions is <strong>ionic<\/strong> in nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NH\u2084NO\u2083<\/strong> is the <strong>only compound in the list that contains an ionic bond<\/strong>, due to the electrostatic attraction between the ammonium and nitrate ions. This makes it unique among the given compounds, which otherwise involve only covalent bonding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/learnexams-banner8-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219131\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which molecule or compound below contains an ionic bond? SiF4 OCl2 C2Cl4 CO2 NH4NO3 The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Correct Answer: NH\u2084NO\u2083 (Ammonium nitrate) Explanation: To determine which compound contains an ionic bond, we need to understand the nature of bonding: Let\u2019s analyze each option: Conclusion: NH\u2084NO\u2083 is the only compound in the list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}