In a hotel breakfast bar, you see an older woman sticking a fork into a toaster to remove a piece of toast. You warn her not to do that, and she says, "You know, I always wondered why forks conduct electricity so well." As an astute chemistry student, how would you explain it to her? Make sure you provide a relationship to electronegativity, proton pull, and electron distribution in your answer.

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.

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