Mercury ions are cations. Chloride ions are anions.
"In an ionic bond, the atoms are bound together by the attraction between oppositely-charged ions. In a covalent bond, the atoms are bound by shared electrons."
1 mercury ion loses 2 electrons to 2 chloride ions (i.e. 1 electron to 1 chloride ion), thus forming an ionic compound MgCl2.
Mercury Chloride is ionic. Mercury wants to give two electrons and chlorine wants to gain 1 for a full electron shell. So Mercury bonds to 2 chlorine atoms to create HgCl2. Another way that you can find out whether a bond is ionic or covalent is to check if each element is a metal or a nonmetal. If two non-metals bond then the bond is covalent. If a metal and a non-metal bond then the bond is ionic. And if a metal and another metal bond then the bond is metallic. Since Mercury is a metal and Chlorine is a non-metal, the bond they form must be ionic.
Mercury forms an ionic bond.
Ionic bonds consist of metals (in this case, mercury) and non-metals.
Covalent bonds do not contain any metals.
Indium can form both ionic and covalent bonds, There are salts such as indium sulfate and organoindium compounds with covalent In-C bonds
The formulae of mercury iodides are: HgI2 or Hg2I2.
Both compounds are ionic
None of all; it is a metal bond (atomic bond)
Mercury form ionic bonds.
Ionic
It is ionic
No, it is not a covalent bond. It is an Ionic bond.
covalent
Covalent
covalent
covalent bond
covalent
Covalent
Covalent bond
Covalent Bond
Ionic bond
Covalent bond is more common than ionic bond.