Sunday, November 6, 2011

Which of the following pairs of atoms will form a polar covalent bond? H and H, C and H, Na and cl, H and O?

H and O. The shared electrons spend a greater amount of time nearer the oxygen nucleus rather than the hydrogen nucleus due molecule geometry and great electronegativity difference between hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Water is not the only molecule to exhibit polar covalent bonding.

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