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Both Sodium and Hydrogen have charges of plus one so no, alone they do not bond.

Hydrogen can have either a +1 or a -1 charge. Therefore you can have NaH, it is called Sodium Hydrazine.

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Sodium, like all alkali metals, forms monovalent ionic bonds when reacting with nonmetals like oxygen and halogens.

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Sodium is an alkali metal, and chlorine is a halogen. This means that sodium contains one electron in its outer orbital and chlorine contains seven electrons in its outer orbital. One electron moves from the sodium atom and attaches to the chlorine atom to fill its outer orbital. This is the creation of two ions (sodium Na+ and chloride Cl-) and the result is table salt.

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A regular lattice of fixed positive nuclei surrounded by a sea of mobile, de-localised electrons.

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The bond between sodium and sulfate is ionic; the bond in sulfate is covalent.

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Sodium chloride has an ionic bond: sodium chloride from giant crystalline lattices.

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it has a metallic bonding

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