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.”

Mal De Coucou

Scrough

Amuse-Douche

Hemeisis

Kinchy

Wenbane

Eisce

Innity

Kuebiko

Poggled

Star-Stuck

Eigenschauung

Pâro

Fygophobia

Anechosis

The Unsharp Mask

Anti-Aliasing

Allope

Feresy

Fitching

Scrough

Los Vidados

Bye-Over

The Kinder Surprise

Gaudia Civis

Achenia

Heartworm