Authors: Raji Heyrovska
Alkali metal halides are known to have shorter bond lengths in the gaseous state than in their crystalline state. It is also known that the bonds are polar covalent. However, an exact interpretation of these bond lengths has remained an open question for the last 85 years. The present author has shown for the first time in 2004 that the crystal ionic distances in alkali halides are exact sums of the Golden ratio based radii of the alkali metal cations and halide anions. In this short report, it is shown that in gaseous alkali metal chlorides, alkali metal cations are bound to covalent chlorine as in the partially ionic bond in HCl.
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