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Why water is a polar molecule?

Updated: 12/20/2022
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Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen - meaning the electrons they share will spend more time near the oxygen.

This causes the oxygen to have a partial negative charge, and the hydrogens to have a partial positive charge - making water polar.

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