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Water is polar because of its unequal sharing of the electron which makes hydrogen slightly positive in charge and oxygen slightly negative in charge. When this happens, the slightly positive hydrogen atoms attract other slightly negative molecules, and thus, attracting other polar molecules. This cannot happen with nonpolar molecules because their charge is zero.

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