What happens in the process of ionic bonding?

Answer 1

A pair of electrons are transferred from one atom to another.

Opposite of covalent bonding, when the valence electrons are shared.

Answer 2

When an ionic bond forms, an electron is completely transferred from the electron donor to the electron recipient, resulting in a cation and anion being formed. The bond is actually an intermolecular force that can be broken through dissolving in an appropriate solution.

AnswerAtoms form bonds by sharing pairs of valence electrons. When they are two types of atoms, the sharing of the electrons be asymmetrical (and if similar, it would be non polar covalent). Because they have different electronegativity values, the atom with higher electronegativity would attract the electrons more. If this difference is more than 1.7 according to Pauling's scale, they have more ionic character than covalent properties. And then the 'electron recipient' will attract the electrons from the 'electron donor' as stated in the above answer.

(The known compound with highest ionic properties, CsF has 5% covalent character. Practically there are nothing as ionic bonds, but bonds with ionic properties.)