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Feb 7, 2016

In covalent bonding Non metals combine together by sharing electrons. The shared pair of electrons holds the two atoms together. It's called a covalent bond. The group of atoms bonded together in this way is called a molecule.

It occurs because of the tendency of the atom to have its valence shell full (Octet rule)

This is one of an example of how an atom shares its electrons with the other element in such a way that the two elements have full
8 electron in their valence shell.

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In the above example the oxygen atom needs 2 more electrons So,it shares the 2 electrons from a oxygen molecule to for a covalent bond molecule.