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Oxygen and Oxygen Ionic or Covalent? Defense how do you know

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Step-by-step explanation:

Oxygen requires two shared electrons to fill its outermost shell therefore to covalent bonds form.

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Answer:

oxygen are covalent bonds because they require 2 more electrons to obtain their octet shell

so when they combine with any other element, they form a covalent bond

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