why is ionic bond called ionic?
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it is a bond formed between opposite charged ions. positive ions are normally metals and form positive charges by donating electrons to non metals that form negatively charged ions. as opposite attracts they form the ionic bonds
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It is lithium Chloride i.e. LiCl\nIt is an covalent compound rather than being an ionic compound. It is define by FAJAN's rule
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There are two types of chemical bond. The first type of chemical bond is the ionic bond. Substance with ionic bond only dissolve in water and not in organic solvents like the alcohol and tetrachloromethane. Examples of substance with ionic bond are sodium chloride, aluminium oxide and magnesuim oxide and so on. The second type of chemical bond is the covalent bond. Substance with covalent bonding DO NOT dissolve in water BUT only dissolves in organic solvents like alcohols. Therefore, substance with covalent bonding like the alcohol(includes ethanol and methanol), ammonia, methane and tetrachloromethane only dissolve in alcohol and not water.
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Ionic compound is usually non-metal reacting with metals.\nThat is positive ion forming a compound with negative ion.\nWe call the compound is ionic if the elements we've used have positive or negative charge.\n\nConvalent compunds have different story because they are sharing the electrons and they don't really have any charge.\n\nI don't know what you mean by exactly what kinds of elements make ionic compounds because almost all of them do! Except all the noble gases far right side of table will not react at all (Where there is argon).\n\nIt is that simple
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The simple answer is probably: covalent bond\n\nI quote: "Covalent bonding is an intramolecular form of chemical bonding characterized by the sharing of one or more pairs of electrons between two species, producing a mutual attraction that holds the resultant molecule together. Atoms tend to share electrons in such a way that their outer electron shells are filled. Such bonds are always stronger than the intermolecular hydrogen bond and similar in strength to or stronger than the ionic bond."
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Not exactly sure what you're asking here either, but perhaps a better answer is that electrons that are shared equally between two atoms in a bond are covalent, while electrons that spend more time with one atom than with the other form an ionic bond.\n\nHope that helps.
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In chemistry, an ionic compound is a chemical compound in which ions are held together in a lattice structure by ionic bonds. The positively charged ion is usually a metal ion and the negatively charged ion is non-metallic element or molecule.\n\nIons can be single atoms, as in common table salt sodium chloride, or more complex groups such as calcium carbonate. But to be considered ions, they must carry a positive or negative charge.\n\nThus, in an ionic bond, one 'bonder' must have a positive charge and the other a negative one. By sticking to each other, they resolve, or partially resolve, their separate charge imbalances. Positive to positive and negative to negative ionic bonds do not occur. (For a real world analogy, experiment with a pair of bar magnets.)
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Something called ionic bonding occurs, when one covalent electron in sodium is given to the atom in the chlorine atom. The two ions are now bonded, hence the name ionic bonding.
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In Ionic bond, elements looses or gains electron(s) and become ions and the electrostatic potential of these ions bind them\n\nIn covalent, the participating elements are bound by sharing electrons between them.
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Strong Love!\n\nIn other words, it's a covalent bond because sharing of electrons takes place in these elements when they combine with each other.
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Ionic solids are indeed formed by a gain and loss of electrons.  More specifically, they are formed by a chemical reaction between a metal atom and a nonmetal atom.  For example, sodium, a metal, has a tendency to want to lose an electron, and bromine, a nonmetal, wants to gain an electron, so the sodium gives an electron to bromin(which is now called bromide).  Now sodium has lost an electron, which is negatively charged, so it has a net charge of 1+. Bromine has gained an electron, so it has a net charge of -1.  Since they are oppositely charged, they are attracted to each other (kind of like how opposite poles of magnets are atracted to each other), they ionically bond and become an ionic solid (also known as a salt).
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If you mean NaCl (letter L at the end instead of number one), then, yes, sodium chloride is an ionic compound. In solid form it is NaCl(s), commonly known as table salt.\n\nIn case you're wondering, the formula NaCl is actually considered a "formula unit" rather than a "molecule." In solid form, ionic compounds are 3-D matrices of ions. But when dissolved or solvated in water, the ions become free floating Na+ and Cl- ions rather than individual NaCl units. A formula unit simply shows the lowest whole-number ratio of cations (positively charged ions) to anions (negatively charged ions) given by the formula. Sodium chloride's cation to anion ratio is one sodium cation Na+ per chloride anion Cl-, or 1 to 1.\n\nBy way of contrast, the formula H2O (for water) represents a molecule, because each molecule of water is a distinct unit.
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First you have to have understanding of their bonding.\n\nMetallic bond - Metallic bonding is the bonding within metals. It involves the delocalized sharing of free electrons among a lattice of metal atoms. These become delocalized electrons or sometimes called a Sea of Electrons surround a giant lattice of positive ions.\n\nWhy is it ductile?\n\nIt is ductile because the attracive forces between the free electrons and cations (positive ions) are very strong. However the cations are able to change its positions(ie change shape) but not seperated from the whole lattice structure.\n\nCeramic on the other hand is an ionic solid. Ionic bonds are a type of chemical bond based on electrostatic forces between two oppositely-charged ions. Often ionic bonds form between metals and non-metals.\n\ntake salt for example:\nhttp://www.geo.arizona.edu/xtal/geos306/9_2.jpg\n\nwhen the struture is changed as a result of impact (ie a piece of the block move downwards by one atom), the positive ions (Na+) changed its location, next to another Na+ ion. (same with the Cl- ion)so they repelled and causes the whole structure to fall apart (brittle).
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Ionic compounds (like NaCl) for lattice structures.  These lattice structures make up the crystaline arrangement of the compound.\n\nThe lattice of NaCl looks like a cube,\nhttp://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~davidz/Chem3AF97/ChB/IonicBond.html\nhttp://departments.kings.edu/chemlab/chemlab_v2/nacl.html
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You get the first answered.\nCovalent bonds are strong and don't disassociate into ions, as ionic bonds do. Watch.\nNaCl common salt, sodium and chlorine, put in solution.\n\nNa+  and Cl- they disassociate and you can follow the path of electricity Electron jumps from sodium to be accepted by chlorine. That is electron flow; conduction of electricity.
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Yes, then it is a called a cation.  The element still contains its protons and therefore gives the ion a positive charge.  \n\nHowever, the electron configuration of the element determines what ions you can make as the stability will drastically fall with the more electrons removed
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u do, ionic bonds results not from a sharing of electrons but from a transefer of one of more electrons from one atom to another