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Comparing and contrasting ionic and covalent bonds?

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Ionic bonding happens with atoms that have opposite things they need for electrons (metals and nonmetals ) and results in a transport of electrons. Covalent bonding occurs between atoms that have similar necessity's for electrons (two nonmetals) and results in a sharing of electrons.

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