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Ionic bond

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What are Ionic Bonds? | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool

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The Chemical Bond: Covalent vs. Ionic and Polar vs. Nonpolar

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Chemical Bonding - Ionic vs. Covalent Bonds

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Ionic Bonding - Science Rap Academy

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Ionic Compounds & Their Properties | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool

Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds. The ions are atoms that have gained one or more electrons and atoms that have lost one or more electrons. This transfer of electrons is known as electrovalence in contrast to covalence. In the simplest case, the cation is a metal atom and the anion is a nonmetal atom, but these ions can be of a more complex nature, e.g. molecular ions like NH+4 or SO2−4. In simpler words, an ionic bond is the transfer of electrons from a metal to a non-metal in order to obtain a full valence shell for both atoms.