Magnesium would acquire a stable arrangement of electrons by bonding with one atom of which of the following elements?

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anonymous · Answer

What are your options?

anonymous · Answer

Magnesium could bond with multiple elements including oxygen and chlorine to stabilize it's electrons

sweetburger · Answer

the halogens and the group 17 elements all would work technically if you could have more than 1 Mg in the compound you could use a large variation of nonmetals

anonymous · Answer

Mg has 2 valence elections, meaning that the cation will lost its 2 electrons to bond with another element, an anion. It could bond with any element in group 16 since all elements in group 16 have 6 valence electrons. When cations and anions bond, the elements want to reach a full octect of 8 valence electrons.