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Why is hydrogen chloride covalent?

Updated: 9/22/2023
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According to Pauling's scale, hydrogen has an electronegativity of 2.1 and Cl has 3.0. This difference makes the H-Cl bond polar by the attraction of bonding electrons towards chlorine.

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