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Forces that Form Molecules and Compounds

By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com

If you could see an ionic bond, it would look something like this.

If you could see an ionic bond, it would look something like this.

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The atoms in a molecule or compound are attracted and repelled with respect to each other in ways that determine the types of bonds they can form.

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