Jelani and Mikah are watching an approaching storm from their living room window. All of a sudden, they see a bright flash of lightning that is soon followed by a clap of thunder. What causes lightning? Describe each step involved in the forming of lightning, and give an example of a similar process from everyday life. Plz help!

nacl or sodium chloride is an ionic compound. this is because an ionic compound pertains to a compound that consists of positively and negatively charged ions. in this case, na (sodium) has a tendency to lose one electron when it reacts with with other atoms, so the resulting sodium ion contains 11 protons and 10 electrons, thus making it positively charged (na+), when chlorine reacts, it usually gains one electron to form an ion called chloride, thus making it negatively charged ( since the ions are oppositely charged, they attract.

it is stable as it is in group 0 which have full outer shells of electrons