Covalent Ionic• Two or more elements share an electron.

• It can be in a liquid or solid form

• Anything can bond covalently.

• Usually no electrical conductivity.

• Usually lower melting points than ionic bonds.

• Usually higher melting points than covalent bonds

• Strong bonds.

• Only formed with group 7 because they have a very high electro-negativity.

• Usually a solid unless in liquid form.

• A molecule losses an electron and gives it to another molecule.

• No definite shape• Definite shape

• Hold atoms together to form bonds.

• Both follow octet

rule. *

*The octet rule is the statement that when atoms combine to form molecules they generally each lose, gain, or share valence electrons until they attain or share eight. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/octet+rule