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What ion will sodium form?

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Sodium is a non-transition metal so it can only form one type of ion, that is Na+ or Na+1. It loses it's only valence electron to a nonmetal so that it can assume a noble gas configuration and be at its most stable state.

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Sodium forms a positive ion and Chlorine a Negative ion.

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Sodium forms Na+ ions.

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Sodium forms the Na+ ion.

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Positive & negative respectfully.

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Ionic bond

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