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a covalent bond means sharing of electrons

the outer most electrons on chlorine shell is 7since chlorine is a diatomic molecule (cl2) it comprises of 2 chlorine atoms having 7in each valence shell.

for this molecule to be stable it must attain the stable octet configuration 8electrons in their outer shell

x x

x Cl x

x x x

1

o o o

o Cl o

o o

so they share the electrons (marked with a hyphen) to attain the stable configuration.

this sharing of electrons between two chlorine molecules is called sharing of electrons within chlorine

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