What kinds of elements make ionic compounds?

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Answer 1

Ionic compound is usually non-metal reacting with metals.
That is positive ion forming a compound with negative ion.
We call the compound is ionic if the elements we've used have positive or negative charge.

Convalent compunds have different story because they are sharing the electrons and they don't really have any charge.

I 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).

It is that simple

Answer 2

Traditionally an Ionic bond is a bond formed between a metal and a non metal and is brought about by electrostatic forces between two oppositely charged ions.

For example Lithium Fluoride is held together as the Positively charged Lithium attracts the negative Fluorine.

Covalent bonding however is about sharing of electrons.

Answer 3

I am not an expert, however, an ion is an imbalance in the nucleus of the atom. In other words, an element amy have 16 protons and 16 nuetrons in the nucleus (along with 16 electrons) but if there is an ion of this element, it may have 16 protons and 17 nuetrons in the nucleus (along with 16 electrons)

Answer 4

ionic bonds tend to be formed between atoms of highly electropositive elements ( like alkali metals ( sodium, pottasium, lithium, caesium) or alkali earth metals ( calcium, magnesium, barium, berrylium)) and atoms o fhighly electronegative elements ( like the halogens ( chlorine, fluorine, iodine and bromine) or group six elements ( 0xygen and sulphur).

This has everything to do with attainment of a stable octet configuration. so atoms like sodium with 1 electron in its outermost shell is happy to release it to chlorine for instance which has 7. By so doing, sodium has 8 electrons (stable octet) in its outermost shell and so does chlorine. This gives us NaCl - common table salt.

Answer 5

metals + nonmetals make up ionic compounds

Answer 6

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