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If energy is stored in chemical bonds, and bond formation is always an exothermic process, doesn't that imply that bond formation both stores and releases energy? How is this possible? I'm clearly not understanding some basic tenet of chemistry. For example, H+ and OH- neutralize to form H2O.
Energy is always released when bonds are formed, but the overall reaction is only exothermic if the energy released in forming new bonds is greater than the energy required to break the original ones. Bonds do store potential energy. It requires energy to break the bonds.