Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Polar Molecules

  • Have an overall charge separation
  • Unsymmetrical Molecules are usually polar
  • Molecular Dipoles are results of unequal sharing of electrons in a molecule


Non Polarity


A) Predicting Polarity
If a molecule is symmetrical the pull of e- is usually balanced
Molecules can be unsymmetrical in two ways:
1) Different Atoms
2) Different number of atoms

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