Question #e486b
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May 5, 2014
Actually both the sodium and the chlorine are changing as they become ions.
The Chlorine is an
The ionic bond forms between the two ions when the charges are equal and opposite to form the
In ionic molecules the metal cation keeps the name and the non-metal anion keeps the root and adds the suffix -ide.
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