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  • 08-10-2015
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What dose it mean to describe water molecules as being polar?

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ChieyBaby ChieyBaby
  • 11-10-2015
Water is a "polar" molecule, meaning that there us an uneven distribution of electron density. Water has a partial negative charge (-) near the oxygen atom due the unshared pairs of electron, and partial positive charges (+) near the hydrogen atoms.
 
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