<text><span class="style10">hemical Bonds (6 of 6)</span><span class="style7"></span><span class="style10">IONIC COMPOUNDS</span><span class="style7">In a crystal of potassium chloride (KCl), each K+ ion (represented here as a purple sphere) surrounds itself with as many Cl- ions (green spheres) as there is space for - which turns out to be six; in the same way, each Cl- ion is surrounded by six K+ ions. The ions are packed in a regular repeating manner, so that - even though the smallest crystal of KCl contains many millions of ions - it has the same cubic shape as a simple mode.</span></text>
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<text>ΓÇó ATOMS AND SUBATOMIC PARTICLESΓÇó WHAT IS CHEMISTRY?ΓÇó ELEMENTS AND THE PERIODIC TABLEΓÇó CHEMICAL REACTIONSΓÇó SMALL MOLECULESΓÇó THE REACTIVITY SERIES </text>