electrovalent bond

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   a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion

   Synonymsionic bondelectrostatic bond

   Broaderchemical bond

Questions about electrovalent bond

What does electrovalent bond mean?

electrovalent bond means "a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion".

What is another word for electrovalent bond?

Close synonyms include ionic bond, electrostatic bond. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electrovalent bond a common word?

electrovalent 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.