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Describe how ionic bonding works?

Updated: 9/15/2023
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Ionic bonding is an intermolecular attraction force within the structure, it is the resultant force when a metal and non-metal element comes together to share their electron. What happens is that Metals are eager to give away their valance electron in order to stabile itself. All metals have the tendency to give away their valance electrons to a non-metal element, A metal has between 1 to 4 electrons in their valance shell, which makes them quiet reactive and unstable, so they tend to give them away. Non-metals have between 5 to 7 electrons in their valance shell so they are eager to adopt free electron from a metal element to complete its outer shell.

Ionic bonds are polar, meaning they are multi charged compounds, they are soluble in water

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