Answer the following question with the right answer:
Describe the process by which two chlorine atoms attain stability through covalent bond formation.
Answer variants:
losing
triple covalent bond
three chlorine
two chlorine
single covalent bond
five
seven
gaining
one electron
sharing
\(2,8,6\)
\(2,8,7\)
The electronic configuration of chlorine atom is . There are electrons in its valence shell. Each chlorine atom requires to attain a stable electronic configuration. A chlorine molecule is formed by the of one electron each by atoms. This shared pair of electrons holds the two chlorine atoms together as a molecule.
Since, the two atoms that share one electron pair are said to be bonded by a , the chlorine \((Cl_{2})\) molecule can be represented as \(Cl - Cl\).