The breaking and reforming of bonds?

When magnesium ribbon comes in contact with a solution of hydrochloric acid (a mixture of hydrogen ions and chloride ions), the reaction happens between magnesium atoms and hydrogen ions. Magnesium atoms need to break the metallic bonding between each other, and hydrogen ions need to break the coordinate covalent bonds existing between them and the water molecules. Then an exchange of electrons takes place. Magnesium atoms give up their valence electrons to hydrogen atoms, and become attracted to dipolar water molecules, while hydrogen ions become hydrogen atoms that promptly form covalent bonds with other hydrogen atoms forming diatomic hydrogen molecules that soon escape from the solution in the form of hydrogen gas bubbles.