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hen covalent bonds are broken and reformed, this may be a simple atom of an element changing to an ion or vice versa,
a polyatomic ion rearranging to another ion or molecule, or a molecule rearranging to another molecule or an ion.
xidation has taken place!
Covalent Bonds are broken and reformed with
two electrons lost by the Oxalic Acid molecule
when making the two Carbon Dioxide molecules
and two hydrogen ions as products.