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In 5 sentences, compare and contrast the similarities and differences between ionic and covalent bonding orbital overlap and hybridizations.
Both ionic and covalent bonding involves valence electrons
Ionic bonding involves complete transfer of electron from one atom to another
Covalent bonding involves sharing of valence electrons to form bonds
Hybridization is reorganization of atomic orbitals to generate hybridized orbitals of same energy. So s and p orbitals combine to form hybridized orbitals all of same energy.
Covalent bonding may involve head-to-head overlap to form sigma bond or lateral overlap to generate pi-bonds.