IonBond® is a worldwide supplier of thin film coating services and equipment with operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Coating centers are. Ionic bond, type of linkage formed from the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions in a chemical compound. Such a bond forms when the valence (outermost) electrons of one atom are transferred permanently to another atom. Learn more about ionic bonds in this article.

Avoid the temptation to replace everything on your brand-new 1911 just to make it 'better'. Know what you're changing out and why. You may spend a lot of money fixing things that weren't broken to begin with.

Shoot at least 500 rounds through it first, then decide what you don't like and want to improve. Regarding vintage 1911s, pre-1970 pistols are highly collectible in original, unaltered condition and should NEVER be refinished or modified as it completely ruins their monetary value. Are they still going to be in the same vomit tan color? I can't help but wonder what the USMC plans to do with desert sand-colored pistols if they get in a scrape somewhere in Europe or Korea.We switched to a brown color in most all our gear and the pistol has followed suit. In fact the Corps has just 'Officially' agreed to allow painting of weapons (M4-M27-M16A4) the brown or coyote color blends in good with our woodland and desert cammies. Black is only good at night. It sticks out big time in the day.

I hope that explains a little bit of the color choice. The thing fantastic four. Nothing has changed except for the finish. Colt didn't decide this. The Marine Corp did. Both the M45 blue box guns and the QCB green case guns will all be Ionbond.

Brent has stated already that custom shop guns could be coming out Ionbond as soon as this month but does not know for sure if the production floor will be changing over quite as fast.The blue box guns are basically what the Marines get. Some blue box guns have shipped with a polished barrel hood instead of the matte bead blasted hood that the Marines spec'd. Colt decided to release the blue box guns to the public to satisfy the overwhelming demand for them.

The USMC marked guns became instant collectibles when changed to M45, and understandably so.SoOpinions - because time will determine -Will the Cerakote finished guns became somewhat collectible?More were made. Cerakote finish will likely be less desirable than the IonBond.But.

It's a Colt - and soon to be a counted number made.Maybe or probably not right away, but will the collectors / acquirers of the pony pistols have to have one anyway one day?it seems if it's a Colt and they don't make it anymore- Well. Are they ever worth less.

What is Ionic Bonding?

Chemical bonds form when the total energy of the bonded atoms is lower than the total energy of the separate atoms.The form the bonding takes is determined by the electron arrangement that minimizes the energy.

In some instances, electrons are shared between atoms - this is termed covalent bonding.

In other instances, there is a complete transfer of one or more electrons from one atom to another.The atom that loses electrons becomes a positively charged ion.The atom that receives electrons becomes a negatively charged ion.

This leads to ionic bonding - the mutual electrostatic attraction of positive and negative charges.In its purest form, ionic bonding is not directional. It can be regarded as simple Coulombic attraction between point charges.This is different from covalent bonding, in which the sharing of electrons results in directional bonds.

Electron Transfer

Li transfers an electron to F. The result is that both the resulting ions become electrically charged and have complete, stable electron shells.

Electrostatic Attraction

The positive and negative ions are electrostatically attracted to one-another, resulting in an ionic bond.

The coulombic force has no preferred direction, with the result that ionic compounds tend to exist as giant crystal lattice structures of ions packed together.

A Sample of Lithium Fluoride's Crystal Lattice

Electronegativity and Ionic Bonding

Two elements will tend to bond ionically when they differ widely in electronegativity.

Periodic Table of Electronegativity

The lighter the shade of green, the higher the electronegativity. Gray means no value is known. (Click image for larger view.)

Covalent Bonding Character

Absolutely pure ionically bonded compounds do not truly exist, because the positively charged ion polarizes the negative ion's electron cloud.This is particularly noticeable when dealing with small, highly charged metal ions such as Al³⁺, although the polarizing effect is present to some extent in all ionic compounds.Polarization is effectively a directional, electron sharing effect, hence it introduces a small amount of covalency in ionic compounds.

The proportion of ionic/covalent behavior in a bond can be very roughly assessed using the Pauling scale of electronegativity.Linus Pauling estimated that an electronegativity difference of 1.7 between elements leads to bonding that is 50 percent ionic.

Values below 1 correspond to covalent bonding dominating and values above 2 to ionic bonding dominating.

Electronegativity of Selected Elements (Pauling Scale)

The C-H bond with a difference of 0.35 will be covalent, while NaCl bonding at 2.23 will be ionic.HCl bonding at 0.96 will be polar covalent, and LiI bonding at 1.68 will be 50/50 ionic/covalent.

The largest electronegativity difference is 3.19, between cesium (0.79) and fluorine (3.98). The resulting bonding is about 95 percent ionic in character.