Explain why compounds formed from non-metals normally do not conduct electricity and have a relatively low boiling point?
Covalent Bonding
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covalent bonds does not have free moving electrons to conduct electricity as all its electrons Is used for bondong, low melting point is due to weak intermolecular bonding.
Great! Just a point to take note, the low melting point should be due to weak inter-molecular forces of attractions between the particles instead of bonding.
Simple molecular structure of covalent compound have a low melting point Due To the Intermolecular Forces Which Are weak . They are the van der waal’s forces and because the are weak and do not require much energy to overcome the forces. Therefore they have a low boiling point. The are unable to conduct electricity because all electrons are being used up for bonding thus there are no mobile electrons hence unable to conduct electricity.