Magnesium is a metal and chlorine is a non-metal. Therefore magnesium chloride is held together by ionic bonding (metal + non-metal). Structure is a giant ionic lattice. It has a high melting ...

Calcium becomes a +2 ion and each chlorine becomes a -1 ion. The +2 calcium ion and the two -1 chloride ions attract each other and form an ionic bond and the compound calcium chloride. One calcium ...