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Carbon dioxide is a linear molecule and any charges on the oxygens cancel each other out. emember vectors?

Water is not linear the bent shape means that the charges on the H atoms do no cancel each other.

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Q: Why carbon dioxide have no dipole moment but water have some dipole moment?
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