Question #7524c
1 Answer
Jan 16, 2017
The electric dipole moment is a measure of the strength of the dipole that forms in a polar covalent bond.
Explanation:
A dipole moment is the name given to a quantity that consists of the product of the charge that has formed on the atoms in a bond times the bond length (the distance between the nuclei of the two atoms).
As a result, it has dimensions of coulomb-metres, or by the more useful unit, the debye, D.
Check out the Wikipedia entry here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_dipole_moment
for more information.
