Sunday, March 6, 2011
Non-polar
CH4 has four positivly charged atoms hanging off the central atom. Since all the atoms are postive the molecules becomes non-polar. If the atom had unshared elctrons and also postive atoms then the molecular would be polar but in this case the molecular is on-polar. Now what does non-polar really mean? First off if a molecule is non-polar than it cannot bond with water. Second being non-polar also means there is no separation of charge, so no postive or negative poles are formed within the molecule. Lastly if the molecule is non-polar usually the molecule is symmetric.
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The blog is very well done, it is clear and easy to find everything that I was looking for. After reading about the methane, it is persuasive and because it states that everyone should have some it makes me want some as well. The 3D structures of CH4 are very actuate, like you said it is an AX4 and that is the correct diagram of it. This molecule is nonpolar because the charges are evenly distributed through the molecule, this was correctly stay in your blog.
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