Every time you sprinkle table salt on your food, you're using a compound born from a dramatic electron transfer: sodium hands an electron to chlorine, both become ions, and they snap together because opposites attract. That's electrovalent bonding and it produces some of the most useful compounds on Earth. Today you'll learn exactly how ionic bonds form, what ionic compounds look like at the particle level, and why they have such distinctive properties. Salt, limestone, and many medicines all start with this bond. Let's go!
10/06/2026, 20:20:14
