Made by Rachael

Metallic Bonding only occurs between metals, it is the strong attraction between closely packed positive metal ions and a sea of electrons, it can also be described as the sharing of free electrons among a lattice of positively charged metal ions. The electrons that participate in metallic bonds delocalize which forms a sea of electrons which surround the positive metal ions. Metallic bonds are strong and hard to break, that is why they have high melting and boiling points.  Atoms in a metal are also arranged into a regular manner-into an orderly and compact manner.