Ionic compounds are typically crystalline solids with high melting and boiling points, while covalent compounds can be gases, liquids, or solids with low melting and boiling points.

But in ionic bonding, electrons are transferred from one atom to the other and not shared like in covalent bonding. Students will use Styrofoam balls to make models of the ionic bonding in sodium ...

The ionic bond is the force of attraction between the oppositely charged ions - a positively charged metal ion and a negatively charged non-metal ion. For example Magnesium (Mg) has the electron ...

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