For any compound, "Ionic and covalent characters are inversely proportional to each other". is this statement correct or incorrect?? Elaborate..

The bigger the difference between the electronegativities of 2 atoms, the more likely it is to be ionic and if the electronegativities of 2 atoms are same then it is more likely to be covalent. 

A covalent character is the covalency in ionic compound which is due to high polarising power of cations and high polarizability of anions. 
Ionic character is opposite to covalent character. 
The greater the polarisation produced, more is the concentration of electrons between 2 atoms, thereby decreasing ionic character and simultaneously increasing covalent character of the bond. 
Thus, as ionic character of bond increases, covalent character of the same bond decreases and hence, ionic and covalent characters are inversely proportional. 


 

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its true because if ionic character increase cavalent character decrease
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