It's like the hydrogen bonds found in water, but way stronger. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have recently ...

NO SCHOOL chemistry textbook is complete without a detailed enumeration of the basic types of chemical bond: covalent, ionic and metallic. And for good reason, because bonds are the glue that binds ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. For a little more than a century, chemists have known that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.