Question

Answers are ONLY allowed to be ionic, polar covalent, and nonpolar covalent.

Ionic bonds occur between a metal and a nonmetal.
Covalent bonds occur between only nonmetals.
Polar covalent bonds occur between two nonmetals that are different types of atoms.
Nonpolar covalent bonds occur between the same kinds of nonmetal atoms.

Question:

Oxygen (O) and Oxygen (O)
a.) What type of bond will form between these two elements?
b.) Why?

Answer 1

A) It will be 2 covalent bonds
B) covalent bonds occur when there’s 2 atoms that share electrons. In this case by sharing the 2 pairs of valence electrons each atom has a total of 8 valence electrons