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Modern chemical terminology doesn't use the phrase molecule in connection with sodium chloride because it is an ionic compound. Atoms can be bound by ionic, covalent or metallic bonds. Only those bound by covalent bonds form molecules. An example is water. Two hydrogen atoms are bound by covalent bonds to an oxygen atom to form a water molecule, H2O. Water consists of enormous numbers of these tiny, separate particles. Sodium and chlorine bond by the transfer of electrons from the sodium atoms to the chlorine atoms. This results in positive sodium ions and negative chloride ions which form a three dimensional lattice of alternating ions. There is no individual 'NaCl' in this giant structure.

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