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| | Covalent bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Covalently bonded hydrogen and carbon in a molecule of methane. |
 | | Pure covalent bonds (which are usually non-soluble, are electrically non-conductive, and tend to exist as individual molecules), and ionic bonds (which are soluble, are electrically conductive when molten or in solution, and, in general, tend to exist in a crystalline form) are on two opposite ends of the spectrum and have different properties. |
 | | Bond order is a term that describes the number of pairs of electrons shared between atoms forming a covalent bond. |
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