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Polar Covalent Bonds, Electronegativity, Bond Dipoles

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Total cards: 18•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Electronegative element attracts electrons, an electropositive one _

Back (Answer)

Donates them

#2
Front (Question)

Element in covalent bond that pulls electron towards itself is slightly _

Back (Answer)

More negative (partial negative charge)

#3
Front (Question)

Symbol that indicates partial negative and partial positive charge look like _

Back (Answer)

Letter s with closed bottom and a +-

#4
Front (Question)

Another way of illustrating electron polarization is by using an _

Back (Answer)

Electrostatic potential map

#5
Front (Question)

An electrostatic potential map uses _ to show the charge distribution

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ROYGBIV

#6
Front (Question)

On rainbow arrow _ signifies positively charged region of molecule

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Blue

#7
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H-H bond, being neutral, is _ color on electrostatic potential map

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Yellow/green color

#8
Front (Question)

Most commonly used electronegativity scale was devised by _

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Linus Pauling

#9
Front (Question)

Electronegativity decreases going down the column of _

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Halogens

#10
Front (Question)

_ second most electronegative element

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Oxygen

#11
Front (Question)

Dipole moment symbol

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u with another tail in front of

#12
Front (Question)

Dipole moment is amount of charge e multiplied by _

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Distance d between centers of charge (u = e x d)

#13
Front (Question)

Charge on an electron is _ electrostatic units (esu)

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4.80 x 10-10

#14
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Distance within a molecule typically falls in the _ cm range

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10-8

#15
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Molecular dipole moments are on the order of _ esu x cm

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10-18

#16
Front (Question)

To simplify reporting of dipole moment, value of 10-18 esu x cm is defined as _

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Debye, D.

#17
Front (Question)

Dipole moment of hydrogen fluoride, 1.7 x 10-18 esu x cm stated as _

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1.7 D

#18
Front (Question)

The kinds of reactions that a substance undergoes can often be related to _

Back (Answer)

Size and direction of key bind dipoles