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If you bond Sodium (Na) with Chlorine (Cl), what will be the result? What will happen in the process?
The result will be NaCl, or table salt. In the process a Sodium atom, that is unstable, will deliver one of its eleven electrons to the Chlorine atom, having ten electrons in two full electron shells.
*Bonus (250 points): What is the resulting Sodium atom called?
(an Ion)