Ionic

Mercuric nitrate is an ionic compound.

What is an ionic bond?

What's an ionic bond?

The ionic compound with the formula NaCl, better known under the name of "kitchen salt", is made of chlorine anions and sodium cations.

The Ionic order of the Erechtheion is the one which is best known and has been most frequently copied and adapted in modern work.

At the molecular level, salt dissolves in water due to electrical charges and due to the fact that both water and salt compounds are polar, with positive and negative charges on opposite sides in the molecule. The bonds in salt compounds are called ionic because they both have an electrical charge—the chloride ion is negatively charged and the sodium ion is positively charged. Likewise, a water molecule is ionic in nature, but the bond is called covalent, with two hydrogen atoms both situating themselves with their positive charge on one side of the oxygen atom, which has a negative charge. When salt is mixed with water, the salt dissolves because the covalent bonds of water are stronger than the ionic bonds in the salt molecules.