The most common molecule on earth is SiO2.
Sodium chloride is an example of a common table salt.
It would be inaccurate to speak of an NaCl molecule because NaCl is an ionic compound, not a molecule. NaCl is formed from an ionic bond between sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-), not from the sharing of electrons between atoms like in a covalent molecule.
NaCl
Water (H2O) and salt (NaCl).
NaCl is a compound, not a molecule. This is because NaCl is created when the elements sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) chemically bond together to form a new substance with different properties from its individual elements.
Common salt, or sodium chloride (NaCl), is composed of one sodium atom and one chlorine atom bonded together. Therefore, each molecule of common salt consists of two atoms - one sodium atom and one chlorine atom.
Today NaCl is considered the formula unit of sodium chloride, not the true chemical formula of the molecule; NaCl form very complex lattices, as other ionic salts.
Cl2 is covalent. NaCl is ionic.
The term molecule is not adequate for sodium chloride because NaCl form large lattices. More exact is formula unit - NaCl.
compound. the molecule is NaCl.
No Its an ionic compound
Two atoms in the formula unit (not molecule): Na and Cl.