Question

What is an ordinate bond? How different is it from coordinate bonds?

Answer 1

Coordinate ionic and covalent bonds in ionic bonding, there is an electrostatic attraction between cations and anions. Coordinate bonding is a form of covalent bonding. In normal cases, in the usual covalent bond, a single bond is formed when both atoms contribute an electron each. However in a coordinate bond, one atom contributed both the electrons