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Hi, Mr. Bond! Can you explain to me more about chemical bonding ?

Sure.

Follow me to my village. I will give you examples for bonding project.

Welcome to bonding village, Bromine . In our bonding village, we have two different type of house: Ionic and covalent.  Covalent houses are stronger than the ionic houses because the covalent houses is formed by sharing member. We have the OCTET RULE every one must follow: A house must have 8 member to become stable house. When a house have fewer than eight member, they tend to react and form more stable compounds. A house continues to form bonds until an octet of member is made.

House: atom or bond.

Member: electron.

An ion is a charged atom or molecule. It is charged because the number of electrons do not equal the number of protons in the atom or molecule. An atom can acquire a positive charge or a negative charge depending on whether the number of electrons in an atom is greater or less then the number of protons in the atom. When an atom is attracted to another atom because it has an unequal number of electrons and protons, the atom is called an ION. If the atom has more electrons than protons, it is a negative ion, or ANION. If it has more protons than electrons,it is a positive ion.

How electrons are shared in a covalent bond?

Covalent bonding occurs when pairs of electrons are shared by atoms. Atoms will covalently bond with other atoms in order to gain more stability, which is gained by forming a full electron  shell. By sharing their outer most (valence) electrons, atoms can fill up their outer electron shell and gain stability.