There are two type of bonds the ionic and covalent. Why do chemical bonds form? An element bond because they attempt to become more energitically stable. A stable element " configuration " try to attain such a configuration by entering into chemical reactions. The atoms of the elements should share one or more pairs of electron to be more energitically stable. If atoms are no more than a few electron away a stable configuration, they generally lose or gain electron, to form electically charged particles,....