IONIC AND COVALENT BONDING

• Covalent bonds are formed when two atoms share electrons to form molecules.
• COVALENT bonds Nonmetals + Nonmetals
• IONIC bonds Metals + Non-Metals
• Ionic bonding is the transfer of an electron from one atom to another, resulting in positively charged cations (metal) and negatively charged anions (non-metal).
• For covalent bonding, we use prefixes to name both elements
• In ionic compounds, only the non-metal element is named