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Is CO4 polar or non-polar covalent?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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CO4 is not even known to exist. See below: Carbon tetroxide "CO4" redirects here. For the Colchester postal district, see CO_postcode_area.

Carbon tetroxide is a highly unstable Oxocarbonwith formula CO4. It was proposed as an intermediate in the O-atom exchange between Carbon_dioxide(CO2) and Oxygen(O2) at high temperatures.Answers.com

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  1. Answers.comLaurence Y. Yeung, Mitchio Okumura, Jeffrey T. Paci, George C. Schatz, Jianming Zhang and Timothy K. Minton (2009), Hyperthermal O-Atom Exchange Reaction O2 + CO2 through a CO4 Intermediate. J. of the American Chemical Society, volume 131, issue 39, pages 13940--13942.

When a compound is so unstable, it has very little meaning to call its bonding either polar or non polar.

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