Covalent bonds
	• What about reactions between 2 nonmetals?  Many nonmetals do bond together.  Hydrogen atoms, for example, often react with other hydrogen atoms.  Which will become positively charged and which negative?  Actually neither.  Neither atom has any stronger pull (or affinity) for electrons than the other, so these reactions do not form ions.  In fact, the 2 atoms share each others' electrons in what is called a covalent bond.