What is the difference between covalent and ionic bonding? (Chemistry)?

Question

Please if someone could explain this to me as if I was mentally challenged.

Answer 1

Easy explanation:

In covalent bonding, electrons are shared. Shared electrons count as belonging to both atoms (when it comes to completing their respective octets).

In ionic bonding, electron transfer is complete. One atom gets the electron(s) all the time and the other atom gets it none of the time.

Answer 2

An ionic bond is a bond between 2 ions. A covalent bond is a bond where the atoms share electrons.

Answer 3

In covalent bonding the atoms share the electrons. These bonds are usually quite strong and require an energy to break them. For example: H2O.

In ionic bonding the atoms are held together by their positive and negative forces. These forces can be easily broken for example when you dissolve table salt (NaCl) in water.

Answer 4

When one atom completely surrenders one (or more) electron(s) to another, resulting in a bond between a positively and negatively charged species, this is an IONIC bond.
Example, HCl

When two atoms equally share one or more electrons - that is, the electron(s) spend nearly equal time orbiting both atoms' nuclei, this is a covalent bond. Example, F2

Answer 5

ionic bonds type between ions...the position a best species ought to have a tendency to bond with a unfavourable one because the better electon on a unfavourable fee is interested in a positiviely charged atom with a lot less electrons. covalent bonding occurs via orbital overal, that is the sharing of valence shell electrons of atomic orbitals to type molecular orbitals

Answer 6

Covalent bonding is a description of chemical bonding that is characterized by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms.

Ionic bonds are a type of chemical bond based on electrostatic forces between two oppositely-charged ions