The cupcakes that come out of the oven after baking are different from any of the individual ingredients that went into the batter. In the water molecule on the right in the figure above, each hydroge...The cupcakes that come out of the oven after baking are different from any of the individual ingredients that went into the batter. In the water molecule on the right in the figure above, each hydrogen atom shares a pair of electrons with the oxygen atom. A metallic bond is the force of attraction between a positive metal ion and the valence electrons that surround it—both its own valence electrons and those of other ions of the same metal.