The cohesive energy of NaCl is - 7.90 eV, with a Coulomb contribution of -8.85 eV, a repulsive contribution of 1.02 eV, a van der Waals contribution of - 0.125 eV, and a term due to the zero point ...

The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic compound sodium chloride is formed. A sodium and chlorine atom are near each other ... The +2 calcium ion and the two -1 chloride ions attract each ...

Sodium chloride is an ionic compound. The table shows some limitations of different models for sodium chloride.