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What are Polar and Nonpolar Covalent Compounds

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Polar covalent compounds 

  • Because the two atoms have different capacities for attracting the shared electron pair, the electrons are shared unequally.

  • The bound atoms gain fractional positive and negative charges as a result of the unequal sharing of electrons, and the bond is described as polar.

Non polar covalent compounds

  • The difference in electronegativity between two atoms is zero.

  • It happens when two atoms with identical electron affinities combine, such as in diatomic elements.