Answer: In calcium chloride there is one calcium atom and two chloride atoms attached to it, it has an ionic bond with chlorine and calcium. A bond is said to be an ionic bond if it is formed by the electrostatic attraction between one negatively charged and one positively charged ions. Ions are the atoms which are formed on the gain or loss of electrons to an atom. All the other molecules have covalent bonds, which forms on sharing of electron pairs.