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Is XeF4 a polar or nonpolar?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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15y ago

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It is non polar. The central Xe atom has 4 Fluorine atoms and two electron pairs attached giving it AB4E2 molecular structure. This leads to a square planar molecular shape. F is more electronegative than Xe and is thus a polar covalent bond, but the 4 bonds in a square cancel out, and the electron pair on top and bottom of the "square plane" cancel each-other out as well, leaving you with a non polar molecule

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15y ago

nonpolar. the geometry lends itself to that answer.

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12y ago

Due to symmetric square planar structure is is almost a non-polar molecule.

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11y ago

non polar =)

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14y ago

non-polar

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nonpolar

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Nonpolar

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nonpolar

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Polar

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