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Yes, definitely. It would form LiF, or Lithium fluoride. Lithium is a metal with 1 extra electron that it needs to lose to become stable and Fluorine is a nonmetal with 7 electrons so it needs to gain 1 more to fill its valence electron shell and complete its octet. Lithium loses its electron to Fluorine and this creates an ionic bond.
The chlorine atom would become a negatively charged chlorine anion because it has an extra electron, and the lithium atom would become a positively charged cation because it has lost one electron.
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In Ionic bonding, a metal and non - metal become ions and attract each other. The metal will lose an electron and become positively charged and the non-metal will gain an electron and become negatively charged. As opposite charges attract they form an ionic compound.
lithium donates the electron in its outer orbital to fluorine which then has a completed outer shell
Yes, definitely. It would form LiF, or Lithium fluoride. Lithium is a metal with 1 extra electron that it needs to lose to become stable and Fluorine is a nonmetal with 7 electrons so it needs to gain 1 more to fill its valence electron shell and complete its octet. Lithium loses its electron to Fluorine and this creates an ionic bond.
The chlorine atom would become a negatively charged chlorine anion because it has an extra electron, and the lithium atom would become a positively charged cation because it has lost one electron.
Many elements can form an ionic bond with fluorine. Metals in groups one and two (such as alkali metals lithium, sodium, potassium, etc. or alkali earth metals like magnesium or calcium) like to form ionic compounds with fluorine. This is because fluorine has an extra electron it wants to give away, and metals in group one and two want another electron to become stable.
Potassium (K) has 1 valence electron which is loses to become K^+. Fluorine has 7 valence electrons and picks up the 1 electron lost by K, and it becomes F^-. They attract each other to become KF.
flourine must gain one electron
Fluorine has 7 valence electrons. In order to become stable, Florine will share 1 electron with another atom to get 8 electron and become stable.
Lithium(Li) gains 1 electron to become stable.
To become more stable, fluorine is most likely to gain 1 electron and form F- ion.
An electron from the Lithium is donated to the Chlorine (so both atoms have a full outer shell) - this means they become Li+ and Cl- , which are charged particles so they attract each other.
Lithium loses one electron to become the cation Li+.
Yes. Any atom that loses or gains electrons become charged. Positively charged If the chlorine atom attracts an electron from a lithium atom, they both become charged ions. The chlorine atom becomes a -1 charged chlorine ion and the lithium atom becomes a +1 charged lithium ion. Further the two ions combine to make the compound Lithium Chloride.