Covalent Bonding

Monday, April 21, 2014

Covalent Bonding

Covalent bonding is a bond between non-metal with non-metal. It is different from Ionic bonding because, ionic bonding is  a bond between metal and  non-metal. In ionic bonding, the ions metal donate the ions to the non-metal to make a complete valence shell, while in covalent bonding the, the ions share the electrons together.

There are single bonds, double bonds and triple bonds. Double bonds can occur between 2 atoms of oxygen, and triple bonding can happen between two atoms of nitrogen. Covalent bonds doesn’t involve charged particles.

Example of covalent bonding:

Ionic bond

Ionic bond is the electrostatic attraction of positive and negative ions to each other. The metals and non-metals bond with each other to completely fill their outer shells and become stable, because before the metals and non-metals bond, the metals and non-metals have incomplete outer shells so they are unstable.

The ionic compounds are compounds that contain ions. The compounds are usually formed between metal and non-metal.