The salt causes the water to freeze at a lower temperature. When a solute, aka salt, is introduced to the system, the freezing point is lowered. This makes the water freeze at a lower temperature.
The difference in
hardness between diamond and graphite is that diamond has an ordered
arrangement of atoms within its structure that makes it harder and stronger
than graphite. This is due to the high pressure and high temperature that it
went.
Ionic bond is a type of chemical bond that refers to the bonding of <span>oppositely charged ions (anions and cations) because of attraction and the </span>transfer of valence electron(s) between atoms. Cation is the metal that loses electrons and become a positively charged cation, and anions are
the nonmetal that accepts those electrons to become a negatively charged
anion.
According this explanation, an ionic bond is:
B. the force that holds the valence electrons to the atom
