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Why does sodium chloride have a high melting point?
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Why does sodium chloride have a high melting point?

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Sodium chloride has a high melting point because of the strong electrostatic attraction between it's positive and negative ions; this requires more heat energy to overcome. All ionic compounds have a high melting point for this reason.

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Because Nacl is an ionic compound and ionic compound have strong force of attraction between their atoms.
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