COMPOUNDS

5.3 - Polar Covalent Bonding

Covalent bonds may either be polar or nonpolar. When electrons in a bond are shared unequally, the bond is called polar covalent bond or polar bond.

Take a look at the kind of molecules that have this kind of bond.

Do you want to know how polar molecules behave when they are subjected to an electric field?

Other molecules with polar covalent bonding are:

These also have polar covalent bonding because the atoms involve in the bonding have different electronegativities. (We will discuss electronegativity in detail in section 5.5.)

Section 6.5
Polar Bonds ..p132

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