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Copper atoms are used to produce pennies. The copper atoms in pennies share many electrons. Pennies contain

bonds.

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Answer:

Metallic bonds

Step-by-step explanation:

Metallic bonds joins atoms of metals and atoms of alloys together. The copper used in making pennies is a metallic substance so it contains metallic bonds.

  • The formation of this bond type is predicated on the large atomic radius, low ionization energy and large number of electrons in the valence shell.
  • The bond is an attraction between the positive nuclei of all closely packed atoms in the lattice and the electron cloud.
  • The electron cloud is jointly formed by all the atoms by losing their outermost shell electrons.

This way the bond in pennies are metallic in nature.

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