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PROPERTIES OF MATTER - Coggle Diagram

- - - - high
    - - virtually incompressible
    - - has a definite volume and shape
    - - vibrate about fixed positions
  - - - held together by covalent bonds
      - lattice points occupied by atoms
      - hard, high melting point
      - poor conductor of heat and electricity
    - - held together by intermolecular forces
      - soft, low melting point
      - lattice points occupied by molecules
      - poor conductor of heat and electricity
    - - held together by electrostatic attraction
      - hard, brittle, high melting point
      - lattice points occupied by cations and anions
      - poor conductor of heat and electricity
    - - held together by metallic bonds
      - soft to hard, low to high melting point
      - lattice points occupied by metal atoms
      - good conductors of heat and electricity
- - - - high
    - - only slightly compressible
    - - has a definite volume but assumes the shape of its container
    - - slide past 1 another freely
- - - - very free motion
    - - very compressible
    - - low
    - - assumes the volume and shape of its container