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What do you call a bond that forms when electrons are transferred from one atom to another?

ionic bond


Is Monopotassium Phosphate ionic or molecular?

tricalcium phosphate is an ionic compound do to the fact that it is the bonding of a metal and a nonmetal. it is usually only a molecular compound if it is a bond between two nonmetals such as oxygen and hydrogen.


Is hydrogen a special form of a ionic bond?

Hydrogen is an element, not a bond. It can form bonds, which are usually covalent, but an ionic bond with hydrogen is possible, for example, lithium hydride is an ionic compound. While this, like every compound, does have its own distinctive features, I would not call it a special form of ionic bond.


What bond do you call a non metal and a metal forming?

It is called an ionic bond


Can an ionic compound ever consist of a cation -cation or anion-anion bond?

Can an ionic compound ever consist of a cation-cation or anion- anion bond? Explain.


What do you call it when 2 or more atoms join together to form a compound?

When two or more atoms join together to form a compound, this is known as a chemical bond. Bonds can be formed through sharing electrons (covalent bonds) or transferring electrons (ionic bonds) between atoms.


What do you call the 2 or more atoms joined together?

It depends on what scale you are considering. On a particle level, if two or more atoms are joined by covalent bonds, you have a molecule. If it's an ionic bond you have a set of ions. If you are thinking of the substance on a large scale it would be a compound.


Is CCl4 a ionic or molecular compound?

Based off my chemistry class, for bonds to be ionic it must be a bonding of a metal and a non-metal. Since chlorine and carbon are both non metals they can't be ionic, we would call it covalent bond but molecular compound works as well.


What is the ionic compound name for NH3?

Oh, dude, NH3 is actually not an ionic compound, it's ammonia. See, NH3 is a covalent compound because it's made up of nonmetals bonding together. So, it's like the cool kid in chemistry that doesn't follow the rules of ionic bonding.


What do you call an interaction that hold two atoms together?

a bond or "atomic" bond


Which of the chemical formulas shows an ionic compound?

The subscript to the right of the element symbol.


What do you call the energy which is required to bond atoms together?

Covalent [the sharing of a pair of electrons] bond energy.