The bond joining the two hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen molecule (Hâ‚‚) is a covalent bond. This bond forms when the two hydrogen atoms share their electrons equally, allowing each atom to achieve a stable electron configuration by sharing a pair of electrons between them. The electrons are attracted by the protons in both nuclei, which pulls the atoms together and holds them as a stable molecule
. This covalent bond is specifically a single covalent bond where each hydrogen atom shares one electron, creating a pair of shared electrons that constitute the bond. It is not an ionic, hydrogen, hydrophobic, or hydrophilic bond, but a covalent bond characterized by the mutual sharing of electrons between the two hydrogen atoms
