How is the periodic table in determining the types of bonds an element will form? a) attracted to each other by covalent bonds b) tells us the number of valence electrons for each element c) tell us the charge of each element d) tells us the number of protons in each element's atoms non-metals are very likely to form ionic bonds with other non-metals. a) true b) false when an ionic bond forms, the atom with the lower ionization energy will be most likely to lose an electron. a) true b) false