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Explain why Na tends to form ionic compounds while B forms covalent compounds ?

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Sodium has one electron is its outer shell. It can lose the electron to form `NA^(+)` ion. Bgoron has three valence electrons with high IE so it more commonly shares the electrons to form covalent compounds.
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