Metallic bond

Intramolecular bonding within metalscalled metallic bonding. It involvesdelocalised sharingfree electrons betweenlatticemetal nuclei.

Metallic bonding, ascovalent bondingnon-polar,that thereno (for pure elemental metals) or very little (for alloys) electronegativity difference amongatoms participatingthe bonding interaction, andelectrons involvedthat interaction are delocalized across molecular orbitals. Italso akin to ionic bondingdistinct from covalent bondingthat the interatomic forceslargely anisotropic andextensive throughoutchemical, rather than being confined todiscrete molecule.