BIOCHEMISTRY
POLAR AND NONPOLAR MOLECULES
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Question
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Trigonal Planar
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Bent
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Tetrahedral
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Linear
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trigonal Planar . See what the community says and unlock a badge.
Detailed explanation-2: -Water is a bent molecule because of the two lone pairs on the central oxygen atom. The individual dipoles point from the H atoms toward the O atom. Because of the shape, the dipoles do not cancel each other out and the water molecule is polar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Yes, if a molecule is bent, because of the uneven dipole moments due to how its shaped and angled, its always considered polar. However, just because a molecule has lone pairs doesn’t make it nonpolar or polar. For example, the bent shape molecule is polar, like discussed before.
Detailed explanation-4: -5. Linear molecules are usually nonpolar, but in this case, not all of the atoms connected to the central atom are the same. The C-N bond is polar, and is not canceled out by the nonpolar C-H bond.