NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -While there is no net charge to a water molecule, the polarity of water creates a slightly positive charge on hydrogen and a slightly negative charge on oxygen, contributing to water’s properties of attraction. Water’s charges are generated because oxygen is more electronegative, or electron loving, than hydrogen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Because oxygen is more electronegative-electron-greedy-than hydrogen, the Ostart text, O, end text atom hogs electrons and keeps them away from the Hstart text, H, end text atoms. This gives the oxygen end of the water molecule a partial negative charge, while the hydrogen end has a partial positive charge.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a water molecule (H2O), the oxygen nucleus with +8 charges attracts electrons better than the hydrogen nucleus with its +1 charge. Hence, the oxygen atom is partially negatively charged and the hydrogen atom is partially positively charged.

Detailed explanation-4: -A molecule that is slightly positive on one end and slightly negative on the opposite end is a polar molecule. Polar molecules are the result of polar bonds and asymmetry in molecular geometry. Polar bonds result when electrons are not shared equally between the two bonded atoms.