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What causes an ionic bond to form?

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What causes an ionic bond to form? Look at the picture above-example-1
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Attraction between a cation in one element and an anion in the other element
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Answer:

Attraction between a cation and an anion.

Explanation:

Oppositely charged particles attract each other. When the particles are cations and anions, we call the attractive force an ionic bond.

B is wrong. An anion and a cation attract each other.

C is wrong. Sharing of electrons among metal atoms creates a metallic bond.

D is wrong. Sharing of electrons between two nonmetals creates a covalent bond.

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