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Explanation:

It contains Na2 molecules and the atoms in this molecule are held together by a purely covalent bond because the electronegativity of the two atoms is identical.

Metallic bonding would not kick in until you make clusters of quite a few atoms. Such clusters would likely not be very stable because thermodynamically the larger the clump of material the more stable it gets. So they tend to coalesce until you have chunk of metal.

Metallic bonding is in a sense a form of covalent bonding, but it is very collective (delocalized over a great many atoms) and electron deficient (there are more states than electrons to fill them up with, leading to conductive properties. This means that “a metallic bond” is a bit of an oxymoron like a forest with only one tree.

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Yes, Na2 gas possesses a metallic character.

Does NA contain metallic bonds?

In the stable state, metal sodium functions as an array of Na+ ions which can be surrounded by way of a sea of 3s electrons. However, it would be wrong to consider metal sodium as an ion when you consider that the ocean of electrons is shared by using all of the sodium cations, quenching the nice fee.

Sodium most effective has one valence electron. So, in metallic bonding, it is able to only donate one electron to be delocalized at some point of the structure. In steel bonding, the real bonding is the electrostatic force between the effective cations and the delocalized electrons.

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