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Title: What type of bond is ICl? Covalent or Polarcovalent?
Post by: LackOfNames34 on October 11, 2020, 11:10:52 AM
I'm doing some work revolving bonds and I have to decide whether ICl is polarcovalent or just covalent. On the type bond triangle it seems it's covalent but I've gotten varying answers from different sources so I came here to see if I could get an answer. Any help?
Title: Re: What type of bond is ICl? Covalent or Polarcovalent?
Post by: chenbeier on October 11, 2020, 11:30:48 AM
Chlorine is more electronegative as iodine. Therefore the covalent bond is shifted to chlorine und makes the molecule polar.