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Compounds with ____ bonds are poor conductors of electricity, even when melted.

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Covalent is correct. <3
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Answer is: covalent.

Covalent compound (for example methane) are usually bad electricity and heat conductors, because molecules aren far from each other, so heat transfer is less efficient.

They do not form ions and atoms are less positive and negative than in ionic compounds.

Ionic compounds are good good electricity and heat conductors, because ionic compounds (for example sodium chloride NaCl) have mobile ions (cations and anions) that are able to transfer electrical charge. This compounds also conduct heat, because the ions are next to each other, so energy can be transferred efficiently from one place to another.

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