Is mercury covalent or ionic bond?

Answer 1

Mercury ions are cations. Chloride ions are anions.

"In an ionic bond, the atoms are bound together by the attraction between oppositely-charged ions. In a covalent bond, the atoms are bound by shared electrons."

1 mercury ion loses 2 electrons to 2 chloride ions (i.e. 1 electron to 1 chloride ion), thus forming an ionic compound MgCl2.

Answer 2

Mercury Chloride is ionic. Mercury wants to give two electrons and chlorine wants to gain 1 for a full electron shell. So Mercury bonds to 2 chlorine atoms to create HgCl2. Another way that you can find out whether a bond is ionic or covalent is to check if each element is a metal or a nonmetal. If two non-metals bond then the bond is covalent. If a metal and a non-metal bond then the bond is ionic. And if a metal and another metal bond then the bond is metallic. Since Mercury is a metal and Chlorine is a non-metal, the bond they form must be ionic.

Answer 3

Mercury typically forms covalent bonds because it is a metal with properties of both metals and non-metals. However, in certain compounds, such as mercury(II) oxide, there can be some ionic character in the bonding due to the electronegativity difference between mercury and the other elements involved.

Answer 4

Mercury forms an ionic bond.
Ionic bonds consist of metals (in this case, mercury) and non-metals.
Covalent bonds do not contain any metals.

Answer 5

Indium can form both ionic and covalent bonds, There are salts such as indium sulfate and organoindium compounds with covalent In-C bonds

Answer 6

The formulae of mercury iodides are: HgI2 or Hg2I2.

Both compounds are ionic

Answer 7

None of all; it is a metal bond (atomic bond)

Answer 8

Mercury form ionic bonds.

Answer 9

Ionic