covalent bond

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   a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule

   Broaderchemical bond

   Narrowerdouble bondcoordinate bond

Questions about covalent bond

What does covalent bond mean?

covalent bond means "a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule".

Is covalent bond a common word?

covalent bond is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.