Total bond dissociation temperature [closed]








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I understand that covalent bonds break at a dissociation energy $D\_0$ that is a function of the particular bond. And it looks like [an upper bound on $D\_0$ is known for possible covalent bonds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond-dissociation_energy#Strongest_bonds_and_weakest_bonds).


It's unclear to me whether continuing to add energy to a mass will at some point guarantee that all covalent bonds are broken, or whether there are other physical processes that could continue to absorb energy so as to prevent total homolysis.


Is there some temperature above which the bonds cannot be maintained in any substantial way? I.e., for any soup of atoms is there a temperature sufficiently high that no molecular compounds can exist?


How hot does thermal plasma need to be to eliminate virtually all chemical bonding?


