Modifies a noun

• kosmotropes: SCN - having the greatest effect and ionic kosmotropes below Cl - having negligible effect.

• conductivity: These results could re-open the discussion on the mechanism of ionic conductivity in these materials.

• radius: The second graph uses ionic radii taken from the Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data.

• lattice: Summary At room temperature, solid aluminum chloride has an ionic lattice with a lot of covalent character.

• liquid: Last month, the center received a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its research into ionic liquids.

• compound: Relate the color of an ionic compound to the color of an ionic compound to the color of its positive or negative ions.

Modifying Another Word

• fully: The material may also have a fully ionic structure, or the mobile ions may be in a covalent host structure.

• purely: Magnesium chloride isn't quite as purely ionic as we sometimes pretend!

• mainly: They are white, insulating solids with negligible small electronic conductivities and the bonding is mainly ionic.

• completely: That's what you would physically expect in a completely ionic system.

• not: Because of its small size, beryllium forms covalent bonds, not ionic ones.

Used with adjective complement

• simulate: The main project has been the development of a software package, DL_POLY, which simulates ionic, polymeric and macromolecular systems.