Seriously though, you actually got me curious and I'll probably check this whole ionic shit later

It's only good once you start learning yourself imo

Or if you have a genuinely good teacher

But that is rare

I don't even know how you can learn chemistry by yourself

I mean, literally, how do you do that?

Do you randomly search books and articles on random topics?

You need to study the periodic table, mainly.

And get a good textbook

Then start from the beginning

Like, to know what are symbols of different elements and what is their order?

Mhm

That's the first step

What textbook?

That's the boring step I'd gladly skip

I already know too much of a period table

I would recommend any one in your native language

What, why

The concepts are a bit annoying to have to read through with English, no?

I don't really get what you mean know

If you have no preference nbd

Might be getting sick ree

But basically

What happened?

The first thing you want to learn is a bit of background

Starting on the subatomic level

With electrons mostly

since that's most of the size of an atom and where the interesting stuff happens.

And then you move up from there

Oh, like valence electrons and shit

Size not mass btw*

I know that all atoms want to have either 2 or 8 valence electrons

Yeah. They just want to occupy the lowest energy state possible

And that's when they have a neutral charge

I will probably add "learning chemistry" somewhere on my to-do list

So they will give up an electron or two or gain one if that's what it takes to be neutral

But it sounds like something requiring putting some effort

Yeah, and they share these electrons with other atoms

Which is why if you go across the table by group number, there are certain atoms that will usually show up in nature with a certain charge.

Which I've posted before.

But I will post again cuz it's cool