Sodium is a metal and chlorine is a poisonous gas. neither is safe to eat. however, when sodium and chlorine combine, it produces edible table salt. what can be concluded? a. table salt has similar physical properties of both reactants. b. table salt is a metalloid with properties of both reactants. c. other ingredients have been added to make table salt safe. d. products are chemically different than reactants.

The allotropes of carbon include a variety of structures that include three-dimensional tetrahedral lattices, planes of hexagonal rings, cylindrical tubes of hexagonal rings, and spheres of five- and six-membered rings. similar shapes of network covalent atomic solids are possible with carbon nitride, boron, and pure silicon (e.g., silicene is a graphene-like allotrope of pure silicon). in contrast, silicates exist as either highly ordered or amorphous (more random) three-dimensional lattices. what could explain why there are there no naturally occurring sheets, stacked sheets, cylindrical tubes, or spheres of network covalent atomic solids composed of silicon and oxygen (sio2)? would pure silicate structures make good lubricants or good electrical conductors?