Explain why molten calcium chloride and magnesium chloride conduct electricity while carbon tetrachloride and silicon tetrachloride do not

      

Explain why molten calcium chloride and magnesium chloride conduct electricity while carbon tetrachloride and silicon tetrachloride do not

  

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Salome
Molten Calcium chloride and molten Magnesium chloride contains Calcium ions and chloride ions,magnesium ions and chloride respectively . These ions are mobile hence they conduct electricity. carbon tetrachloride and silicon tetrachloride have no mobile ions and therefore they can't conduct electricity.
Sally the guru answered the question on October 26, 2017 at 04:42


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