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Oxygen has a higher electronegativity than carbon, which would make you think CO2 molecules should be polar. Even though the individual C-O bonds are polar (meaning the electrons are more attracted to the oxygen atoms than to the carbon), the overall CO2 molecule is not polar. Why? Because the molecular geometry, or how the carbons and 2 oxygen line up, is linear (in the same plane).
It looks a lot like this: :O:=C=:O:
The equal signs and colons represent bonding and non-bonding electrons respectively. Since these electrons/negative charges are equally distributed on each side of the carbon atom, the overall molecule has a neutral charge, meaning it is not polar. If that is still confusing, think of the negative charges as forces or vectors. Since they are the same charge (remember like charges REPEL and opposites attract), then they oppose each other in direction, canceling themselves out and leaving us with a non-polar molecule CO2.
Contrast that with water (H20). It is polar because it's oxygen has 2 pairs of non-bonding electrons on it and the 2 hydrogens have none. In that setup, the hydrogen atoms move away from those 4 electrons and closer to each other, resulting in a a bent molecule. In a bent molecule, symmetrical distribution of charge is not possible, resulting in the oxygen end of H20 having a partial negative charge, and the hydrogen end having a partial positive charge. This gives way to water's polarity and properties such as adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo. It's linear.
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