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To explain how to draw an ionic structure, we can do this with an example.
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So let's take potassium iodide as an example.
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So what i have is potassium iodine.
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I know that each of these comes from potassium, which has a single valence electron, iodine, which has seven.
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What there is is a transfer of electrons from the metal to the non -metal.
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And so potassium becomes a positively charged ion with no electrons in the valence shell where it started at.
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So it does have a full valence shell.
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It's just not what we show here.
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So it has the positive potassium ion...