Ionic Bonds confusion

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Can Ionic compounds transfer Dots (e-) from nonmetal to metal or can it only transfer it from metal to nonmetal?

[Tanmay Singhal 1H]

i believe only metal to nonmetal

[Michelle Song 1I]

Metals tend to form cations and nonmetals tend to form anions, meaning metals will tend to donate electrons to nonmetals.

[April Meza 3K]

I am pretty sure it is only from metal to nonmetal.

[madawy]

It is a lot easier for metals to lose electrons when they bond with nonmetals. For example, Mg can have a full valence shell of eight if it loses its 2 electrons in its outermost shell. This is a great contrast to Chlorine, for example, which has seven electrons in its valence. It is so much easier for Cl to gain 1 electron than to lose 7, and thus has a higher electron affinity/ionization energy than Mg.

[Michelle Xie 2B]

It is with a metal and nonmetal since a metal tends to give electrons away to the nonmetal.

[005162902]

metals can only give electrons to nonmetals

[Mandeep Garcha 2H]

Metals can only give electrons (e-) to nonmetals.