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A covalent bonding can ONLY be done between a non-metal and a non-metal. Therefore there is no positive valency, because any non-metals can´t loose electrons. The result is, in comparison with ionic bonding, that the atomic structure is shared between the elements, by the other way in ionic bonding the metals just pass the electrons to the other non-metal. So in covalent bonding they SHARE.

Eg. Water :

H-O-H

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