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What it the main difference between an ionic and a covalent bond?

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Ionic is the transference of electrons and covalent is sharing
Also ionic is with metals and non-metals and covalent is just non-metals
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Ionic bonds will be a metal + a nonmetal, and electrons are transferred from the metal to the nonmetal.

A covalent bond will be a nonmetal only. Nonmetals will not give up their electrons so electrons are shared.

I have also written this on the whiteboard in the image provided.

What it the main difference between an ionic and a covalent bond?-example-1
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