Chemical Bonding website review

Anthony Carpi's article was a nice review of our class material -- no moving pictures or anything flashy, but he got my attention by pointing out that sodium, a metal that produces flames when it contacts water (how can I get some of this? Cool!)combines with chlorine gas, which was used as a weapon in World War 1, to form the nice, safe compound of sodium chloride, table salt. This really illustrated to me the idea that elements are highly reactive if they have those lonely electrons on the outside and then when they're bonded they are more stable. Kind of sounds like the delusion women get that if they can marry that unstable, reactive man, he'll become a nice stable husband and father....may work for table salt but I don't think it works with humans.