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Ionic comes from ion as you might have guessed. An ion is a charged particle (either positive or negative), and ionic is the adjective meaning charged. An ionic bond is a chemical bond based on electrostatic attraction (the attraction of charges), and we generally associate it with the bonding of metals to non-metals.
An ionic compound is one in which at least two of the elements or compounds in the group are oppositely-charged ions held together in an ionic bond. In the formation of this bond, a metal atom, either alone or bonded in a molecule, donates an ion to a nonmetallic atom. Magnesium and flourine and sodium and aluminum both will form ionic compounds. sodium and aluminum.