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Which element could chlorine bond with to form an ionic compound? helium oxygen fluorine sodium
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Which element could chlorine bond with to form an ionic compound?

helium
oxygen
fluorine
sodium

User Danny Mencos
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The answer to this is sodium. Sodium has 1 electron in its outermost shell,and chlorine has 7 electrons. it is easiest for sodium to loses its electrons and form a +1 ion, and for chlorine to gain an electron, forming a -1 ion. 
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Sodium. It'll make sodium chloride or NaCl or table salt.
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