Calcium chloride (CaCl2) is an important industrial salt for inorganic synthesis, and has in its structure a bivalent cation, derived from the chemical element calcium, and a monovalent anion, derived from the chemical element chlorine, which are bonded by ionic bonding (by the transfer of two electrons by the calcium element and acceptance of each by an atom of the chlorine element).
Answer: Calcium Chloride is an example of a compound as it exists in a fixed ratio. Calcium Chloride forms an ionic bond. The formula for Calcium Chloride is CaCl₂.
Once dissolved in water, Calcium Chloride will dissociate into aspecific cation:
Ca²⁺ and an anion: Cl⁻
The formula of Calcium Chloride indicates that it requires two ions of chlorine to achieve its octet state.
The cation and anion are more stable form of the respective atoms. True.