Chemistry GCSE

Giant structure

What Giant structure means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.

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A metal is a giant structure of atoms rather than a simple molecule, with no fixed small number of atoms.

AQA · Metallic bonding (study guide)

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Metallic bonding (AQA GCSE)

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