-Ok so when you put ice on heat it will melt slowly and become liquidand if you keep the liquid on heat it will slowly evaporate. That is, the ice is tiny particels all frozen together that have no room to move around which forms the ice cube, once you put that ice cube on heat the particels will then have room to move around because the heat will melt the particals and give them room to move around which creates liquid. As you keep the liquid on heat it will slowly evaporate because the particals will have lots of room to move around and rise upwards creating steam. http://s3.......
I would not put much stock in the information found at the link given by "Nothing" (http://www.diffen.com/difference/Covalen… It is filled with misconceptions and factual errors. The references to "ionic vs covalent" are not to the bonds, but to compounds with covalent bonds and compounds with ionic bonds.
Ok so when you put ice on heat it will melt slowly and become liquid and if you keep the liquid on heat it will slowly evaporate. That is, the ice is tiny particels all frozen together that have no room to move around which forms the ice cube, once you put that ice cube on heat the particels will then have room to move around because the heat will melt the particals and give them room to move around which creates liquid. As you keep the liquid on heat it will slowly evaporate because the particals will have lots of room to move around and rise upwards creating steam.
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check this out it will explain and show you examples of each
And this is for the second question
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Covalent_Bonds_vs_Ionic_Bonds
hope that helps :)
Ionic bonds are not stronger than covalent. Their order of strengths overlap.