A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic compound sodium chloride is formed. A sodium and chlorine atom are near ...
To become stable it must lose its two outer electrons to obtain a full outer energy level ... charged chlorine ion. Ionic compounds form what is known as a lattice structure.
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