why does sodium form +1 ions and not +2 ions?

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Sodium has the configuration : 2, 8, 1
It loses one electron and forms a stable octet configuration (2,8).

It does not form +2 ion, because it requires a lot of energy to get that configuration and moreover the stable configuration is obtained by losing one electron only.

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