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Elements react ("marry") other elements to achieve stability. Many elements, especially the more reactive ones, are unstable by nature. For example, sodium and chlorine are very unstable. Hence, they will react if they can to form compounds (in this case, sodium chloride). Compounds are more stable because they have the noble gas configuration (i.e. full valence shell).

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