Question 11 • EA Academy Online Learning and Digital Citizenship Elective Spring
Covalent bonds usually form between nonmetals, which share electrons. Hydrogen and chlorine are both nonmetals, as are carbon and oxygen, so H and Cl and C and O form covalent bonds. The metal–nonmetal pairs listed typically form ionic bonds, while two aluminum atoms form metallic bonding.
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