While covalent bonding involves sharing electrons between two atoms, ionic bonding involves the complete transfer of electrons from one atom to another, creating positive and negative ions. These ions are then held together by the attraction between their opposite charges.
A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms. These electron pairs are known as shared pairs or bonding pairs, and the stable balance of attractive and repulsive forces between atoms, when they share electrons, is known as covalent bonding.
