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Q: What bond will Magnesium and Oxygen form?
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What elements does magnesium like to bond to?

Magnesium can bond with oxygen to form magnesium oxide. Magnesium can also bond with chloride and that will create magnesium dichloride.


What are more likely to form an ionic bond a silicon and oxygen b oxygen and oxygen c carbon and hydrogen d magnesium and oxygen?

Magnesium and oxygen as in magnesium oxide


Can you use the word ionic bond in a sentence?

As an example Magnesium and oxygen have an ionic bond between them to form magnesium oxide. :)


How can you tell an ionic bond is formed between magnesium and oxygen?

it is ionic bonding because magnesium is a metal and oxygen is not. ionic bonding occurs between a metal and non-metal


What type of bonding will occur between magnesium atom and a oxygen atom?

A ionic bond will form. Magnesium will lose two electrons and the two chlorine atoms will pick up one atom each. It will become magnesium dichloride (MgCl2). I believe that a polar - covalent bond will form. .3 to1.7 difference in electronegativity is polar covalent. and when you subtract the electronegativity of the two elements you get .5 and that falls in the polar covalent area.


Does mangnesium and oxygen form an ionic bond?

Yes: Each magnesium atom transfers its two valence electrons to an oxygen atom to form the ionic compound magnesium oxide.


When magnesium bond with oxygen what is it called?

magnesium oxide


How can a magnesium atom bond with oxygen atom?

The magnesium has 2 valence electron while the oxygen misses 2 electron to complete its octet. An atom is always more stable when it has 8 valence electrons. The magnesium will create an ionic bond with the oxygen by giving its 2 electrons to form Magnesium Oxide, MgO.


What type of bond does magnesium bromide form?

Magnesium and bromine form an ionic bond.


What are likely to form an ionic bond magnesium and sulfur or nitrogen and oxygen?

Magnesium and sulfur are much more likely than nitrogen and oxygen to form an ionic bond, because the difference in electronegativity between sulfur and magnesium is much greater than the difference in electronegativity between nitrogen and oxygen. Another way of phrasing the reason is that magnesium is a metal and sulfur a nonmetal, while nitrogen and oxygen are both nonmetals.


The bond formed when Magnesium combines with oxygen is?

ionic bond


Is the bond between magnesium and oxygen a ionic or convalent?

It is ionic. Electrons are transferred from magnesium to oxygen.