Thursday, March 19, 2015

Covalent Bonding by Madalyn

       Covalent Bonding: “A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms. The stable balance of attractive and repulsive forces between atoms when they share electrons is known as covalent bonding.”

In Covalent Bonding only non metals and nonmetals can bond together. The term Covalent Bond dates from 1939. The 2 elements combining do not have to be the same element they can be any two nonmetals. Covalent bonds are important because if nonmetals couldn't bond we wouldn't have a lot of the things we can't live without like water (H2O). What are the most common elements that bond using covalent bonding? Covalent bonding is the most common type of element bonding. It is also the most important type. 

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