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Why dipol moment of methane is zero?

Updated: 9/18/2023
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Two reasons the bonds are not very polar AND even if they were the bond dipoles would cancel one another out as they point in different directions CH4 is tetrahedral. CCl4, also tetrahedral, definitely has polar bonds but because they cancel one another out it has no dipole

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