Ionic Bonding
Storyboard Text
- My friend is coming today. I can't wait to see her.
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- Mg
- 2+
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- Mg
- 2+
- Someone is knocking on my door. I think she's her.
- I know you're not okay. Let's talk about it.
- Hey! What's wrong?
- Mg
- O
- 2+
- O
- 2-
- Don't mind me my friend.
- So tell me, what happened?
- Mg
- 2+
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- O
- My valence shell is incomplete and I'm unstable. I don't know what to do.
- 2-
- Oh you only have 6 electrons in your outer shells. But I have 2 extra electrons. Here, take it.
- Mg
- Yeah exactly! I'm a positively charged so I'm a cation.
- Magnesium is a metal, she transferred her 2 electrons to her friend Oxygen that is non-metal.
- O
- Mg
- O
- Na
- And I'm negatively charged and I'm an anion. So we can ionically bonded!
- Wait, What really??
- Cl
- This kind of friendship formed a Magnesium oxide that is ionically bonded together.
- O
- Mg
- Mg
- Magnesium oxide
- O
- O
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