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So in this video we're going to talk about question 12 from chapter 8, which asks us, how does a bond between sodium and chlorine differ from a bond between carbon and oxygen? what about a bond between nitrogen and nitrogen? well, sodium is a metal.
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It's an alkali metal.
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And metals like to react to lose electrons and gain a positive charge.
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That usually puts them closer to the noble gas configuration, which is more stable.
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So they react to lose electrons because that's more stable, so they like to have a positive charge.
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They like to form cation.
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Chlorine is a non -metal, which likes to react to gain electrons.
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So it's going to react with sodium so that sodium forms a cation, and chlorine forms an anion.
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It gains a minus one charge...
