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This document compares and contrasts ionic, polar, and non-polar bonding. Polar bonding involves the unequal sharing of electrons between two different nonmetal atoms, with one atom attracting the electrons more strongly than the other. This gives the atoms partial positive and negative charges, though electrons are not completely transferred as in ionic bonding. Lewis diagrams are used to illustrate how ionic bonding involves full electron transfer between atoms, while polar bonding shows unequal sharing l

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