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Which type of bond is most likely to occur in the compound mgcl2?
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Which type of bond is most likely to occur in the compound mgcl2?

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An ionic bond because Magnesium is a metal and Chlorine is a nonmetal, because mg has a +2 charge and chlorine has a -1 charge then mg would hand out the electrons from its outermost orbital and hand them off to the 2 chlorine atoms.
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