covalent bonding and ionic bonding? what’s the difference?
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Covalent bonds are bonds that when two or more non metal elements share electrons. Take water. H2O. The oxygen wants to fill it’s outer layer with 8 electrons, but it has six. Hydrogen in the other hand has one electron it wants to get rid of. 2 hydrogens with 1 electron each 1 oxygen wanting 2 electrons? Boom, you share the electrons you have! Ionic bonds are between a metal and a non metal. It’s similar in a way that electrons are wanted to be gained or lost but different in a way where there is no sharing and so therefore the way the atoms bond is different. Take NaCl, or salt. Chlorine wants to get a 1 more electron to fill it’s most outer layer electron shell. And sodium wants to get rid of its 1 electron in the outer shell. But instead of sharing Na is just like “hey take it” . Na becomes a positive ion and chlorine becomes negative. But what have we learned in science? Opposites attract. The two opposite charges attract each other and the two atoms stick together. But it’s a weaker bond. Covalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds
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