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A charge-neutral substance whose structure is usefully described as an extended assembly of cations and anions rather than discrete neutral molecules.
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Ionic compounds are a major inorganic class, although organic ions can also form ionic compounds.
The target is a member or subtype of the broader source class.
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Ionic compounds are extended charge-neutral structures; pairwise ion language is useful but lattice, polarization, and covalency matter.
The target is a model, idealization, restricted ansatz, approximation scheme, phenomenological fit, or historical representation used for the source system or theory. It need not have a universal small error parameter and is not thereby a controlled limit or effective theory. The edge label and detail must identify the precise status.
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