What Is an Ionic Bond?

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5. Soluble in Water

Drop some salt in water, and it will quickly become dissolved and it will continue to dissolve until the water is saturated with the chemical. The same also happens in other chemicals that have been formed by ionic bonds. Water is a dipole, this means that it has a pair of oppositely and equally charged poles. When you put salt, for example, into water, the water molecules attract the negative and positive ions.

This then causes the sodium and chlorine atoms to break away from each other. The separated particles are then able to move around within the solution separately from each other.

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