How do covalent bonds and ionic bonds compare?

Answer 1

Covalent bonding involves the sharing of electrons. Ionic bonding involves the transfer of electrons.

Answer 2

Well an ionic compound steals electrons from its own compound. like when one of the elements has a positive charge and the other has a negative they share, or as i called it stealing, to balence out the electrons to complete the octect rule. Convalent compounds share, actually share no stealing what so ever. lets use h2o for an example. the hydrogen's have one electron in their 1st level and to be complete they need 2, the oxygen has 2 in its first level and 6 in its second. it still needs to more to be complete(the whole goal is to complete the octect rule) so the oxygen shares the electrons that the hydrogen have and the hydrogen share with the oxygen. as my teacher explained(just earned about this today) it makes the elements feel like they have completed the octect rule when in fact they have not. The below answer sucks....

AnswerThe reason is because I don;t know either.

Answer:

The other answer sucks too. It doesn't tell you the similarities. It tells you the differences.

in other words for u dingdongs they both follow the octect rule

Answer 3

All compounds, whether ionic or covalent, must contain at least two atoms per molecule. These compounds are formed because of the improved stability of the electron arrangement in the resulting molecules as compared to the consituent atoms before bonding.

Answer 4

they both have Winston

they both have Winston

Answer 5

I think they are similar because their atoms are held together by strong bonds.

Answer 6

They both involve the attraction of the positively charged nucleus to the negatively charged electron.