Ionic bonds are the electrostatic forces that hold oppositely charged ions together in such familiar compounds as NaCl, fluoite (CaF€) and limestone (CaCO‹).
Molecules with ionic bonds will be crystalline in their solid state and will good conductors of electricity in their molten state or in solution. A good example of this is NaF.
These charateristics are so because an electron is transgered from the metal to the non-metal so that the non-metal achieve the electronic structure of a nobel gas. Other halogens (Cl, Br, I) will acquire the electronic structure of their corresponding nobel gases (Ar, Kr, Xe) when bonding with metals.
