One Dial, Not Three Boxes

Nothing in a bond decides to be “covalent” or “ionic.” There is one continuous quantity — how much harder one atom pulls on the shared electrons than the other — and every bond in chemistry sits somewhere along it. The names are labels we painted on regions of a ramp. Slide the dial and watch the electron cloud lean.

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