Types of Chemical Bonds: Ionic, Covalent, and Metallic

Chemical bonds are an attraction between atoms that allow for the formation of chemical substances that contain two or more atoms. You can say that chemical bonds are responsible for holding atoms together in compounds. Because of their importance in chemistry, as well as everyday life, there are many jokes that have been written about the relationships between chemical bonds. A few of these are listed below - see if your friends can guess the answers to the following chemical jokes and puns:

• Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium? It went OK.
• What is the chemical formula for sea water? CH2O
• Why did the white bear dissolve in water? Because it was a polar bear.
• How do Sulfur and Oxygen communicate? A sulfone.