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Therefore on both counts, beryllium holds onto its electrons more strongly than lithium. The end result is that whereas lithium can form ionic bonds, beryllium cannot. What actually happens when beryllium tries to bond with a nonmetal? Naively, you might postulate that beryllium and chlorine would form the ionic compound BeCl2. Usually, chlorine (a very electronegative element) would pull the valence electrons of a metal so strongly toward it that the electrons would effectively transfer from the metal to chlorine; the resulting cation and anion would form an ionic compound.
Binary Ionic Compounds. An ionic compound is a compound that is formed between a metal and a non-metal. (Metalloids can also be used in ionic compounds, sometimes as cations and sometimes as anions, depending on the properties of the specific element.). In ionic compounds the metal will always be a cation and the non-metal will always be an anion.