Covalent Bond

Covalent Bond

n.
a moment of sudden involvement in a stranger’s personal life— rushing over to break up a fight, helping a teary-eyed parent struggling with a stroller, righting someone’s bike after a bad fall—that shatters the invisible glass box that usually surrounds us in public, the one we prefer to pretend is impenetrable, which somehow renders us unable to speak.

From covalence, literally “shared strength.” In chemistry, a covalent bond describes the force that holds two atoms together upon sharing a loose outer shell of electron pairs. Pronounced “ko-vey-luhnt bond.”

Covalent Bond

Aftergloom

Star-Stuck

Scrough

Monachopsis

Hailbound

Tillid

Siso

Wenbane

Heartmoor

Adronitis

Anecdoche

Burn Upon Reentry

Ludiosis

Catoptric Tristesse

Kinchy

The Unsharp Mask

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

Ochisia

Harmonoia

Attriage

Allope

Keta

Blinkback

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Keep

Heartworm