/Chemical bondingTHE FORCES THT ACTS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE ATOMSTO HOLD THEM AS A STABLE MOLECULE IS KNOWN AS CHEMICAL BOND. THE CONCEPT IS KNOWN AS CHEMICAL BONDING. CHEMICAL BONDING REFERS TO THE FORMATION OF A CHEMICAL BOND BETWEEN TWO OR MORE ATOMS, MOLECULES, OR IONS TO GIVE RISE TO A CHEMICAL COMPOUND. THESE CHEMICAL BONDS ARE WHAT KEEP THE ATOMS TOGETHER IN THE RESULTING COMPOUND. TYPES OF CHEMICAL BONDINGELECTROVALENTBONDCOVALENTBOND Some bonds are produced when electrons are transferred from atoms of one element to atoms of another element, producing positive and negative ions. These bonds are only formed between metals and non-metals but they are not formed betweentwo non-metals. The bond which is formed by the transfer of electrons between the atoms is called Electrovalent bond or Ionic bond. ELECTROVALENTBOND Elements having very high ionization energies are incapable of transferring electrons and elements having very low electron affinity cannot take up electrons. The atoms of such elements tend to share their electrons with the atoms of other elements or with other atoms of the same element in a way that both the atoms obtain octet configuration in their respective valence shell and thus achieve stability. Such association through sharing of