If sodium nitride did exist, would you expect it to be more or less saltlike than lithium nitride? Briefly support your answer.
Sodium nitride (Na3N) is the inorganic compound with the formula Na3N. In contrast to lithium nitride, sodium nitride is an extremely unstable alkali metal nitride. it decomposes into two elements as: 2 Na3N → 6 Na + N2
This molecule seems to has about 90% ionic character at room temperature, but has the band gap typical for a semiconductor. It adopts the anti-ReO3 structure with a simple lattice made up of NNa6 octahedra. The compound has N-Na bond lengths of 236.6pm.
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