Competency #6
Predict chemical bonding in terms of electron behavior and the periodic table
Learning Objective i
- i. Differentiate between polar and non-polar covalent bonds
Question
Write down your answer to the following question:
Table 19.19 from Hewitt1 is below, showing the “experimentally measured electronegativities of elements.” Using the table, write down 3 examples pairs of atoms that will form polar covalent bonds and 3 examples of pairs of atoms that will form non-polar covalent bonds.
1Hewitt, Paul G., John Suchocki, Leslie A. Hewitt, Conceptual Physical Science, 3rd Edition, San Francisco: Addison Wesley, 2004.
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