Ionic compound

[Brice McKeown 3D]

When drawing the lewis structure for an ionic compound, do you just write the elements next to each other with no type of line or anything connecting the two?

[Sara Lakamsani 4D]

Yes, I believe you draw the valence electrons around the atom that takes them and note the charges with brackets, but no lines because those indicate electron pairs that are shared covalently.

[Keshav Bhatnagar 1H]

You don't have a line connecting two ionic compounds otherwise it would mean they have a covalent bond. To write an ionic bond, you would just put the elements in brackets and indicate their charge outside the bracket.

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Here's some practice problems I did. Hope this helps you out!

[Ethan Nishikawa 4D]

shouldn't the brackets separate each element individually?