COVALENTBOND

Covalent bond

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. For many molecules, the sharing of electrons allows each atom to attain the equivalent of a full outer shell, corresponding to a stable electronic configuration.

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covalent bond

Noun

  1. A type of chemical bond where two atoms are connected to each other by the sharing of two or more electrons.


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