What will make you richer, Ionic Bonds or Covalent Bonds? hehe

There are two kinds of chemical bonding:

Ionic Bonding and Covalent Bonding.

Ionic Bonding involves the bonding between a metal and a non-metal (or an element with a positive charge, and an element with a negative charge).  The positively charged metals will give away a certain number of electrons to negatively charged non-metals because of the strong attraction of the non-metal.

Observe and Learn:




Where as...

Covalent Bonding involves the bonding between non-metals and non-metals.  In this instance, the chemically bonding non-metals will share a certain number of valence electrons (electrons in the outer-most shell).




But remember kids, if in doubt google it out.

And voila, you may have found:

"All About Covalent Compounds" http://misterguch.brinkster.net/covalentcompounds.html

"All About Ionic Compounds" http://misterguch.brinkster.net/ionic.html

or better yet...

"Ionic and covalent bonding animation"