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Non-polar compounds is a type of covalent chemical bond between atoms, where the resulting charge distribution is spread symmetrically around the centre of the newly formed molecule - unlike polar compounds where the charge distribution is not symmetrical. Polar means it has different ends i.e. a positive and negative end. The molecules of polar compounds tend to line up their poles (like magnets' south and north poles attract each other) and adjacent molecules will attract each other. Non-polar compounds does not exert this behaviour.

When two atoms bond to each other, they share a certain number of electrons with each other, usually 1 or 2. This sharing is the basis of their bonding. When either atom attracts the shared electrons stronger than the other, the electrons tend to be more concentrated towards the attracting side, resulting in that side being more negatively charged(the charge of an electron being negative) than the other side.

This idea may be expanded to long chains of atoms forming complex compounds, with one end of the chain more positively/negatively charged than the other end. Remember though, that a long chain with two negative ends and a positive middle region is symmetrically charged, thus non-polar.

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