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Topic: Why is difluoromethane polar?  (Read 8236 times)

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Why is difluoromethane polar?
« on: September 01, 2005, 07:24:39 PM »
How do you explain difluoromethane (CH2F2) being polar? Is it the electronegativity difference (How do you calculate that for three elements?) Or is it the tetrahedral configuration?
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Re:Why is difluoromethane polar?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2005, 07:26:41 PM »
its tetrahedral.
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