Common salt is a compound of _ and ____.

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Common salt is a compound of $N a$ and $C l$
Sodium $⟶ N a (2, 8, 1)$
Chlorine $⟶ C l (2, 8, 7)$
Sodium looses one electron to chlorine and form sodium chloride with ionic bond, and it is referred as Common salt also.

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