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Is sodium polar or non polar?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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12y ago

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Sodium phosphate is ionic and readily break into ions in solution. It is not classified as polar nor non-polar because it is completely separated. In classification of molecules the three classes are non-polar, polar and ionic.

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15y ago

Sodium itself is a metal, and so is held together by metallic bonds (a kind of special kind of covalent bond that involves close overlap of atomic orbitals). To have a polar covalent bond you need a bond between two different atoms with differing electronegativities, but not so different that an electron is transferred and the two form an ionic bond.

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14y ago

An ion cannot be polar. When something is polar, like a water molecule, one side of it is slightly negative and the other is slightly positive. An ion is more like a point charge, where it can be positive (like Sodium) or negative, but not both. Ions will, however, generally dissolve in polar substances due to their charge attracting one end of the polar molecules around them.

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14y ago

polar....for other problems, try bonding the molecule first

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13y ago

No. An element on its own is never polar.

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12y ago

yes Na2S is polar

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9y ago

yes, it is polar. It has poles. Na+ SO4-

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14y ago

No, it is ionic solid.

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12y ago

Polar

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