Do nonpolar covalent bonds share electrons equally?

1 Answer
Apr 19, 2018

Just to retire this question....

Explanation:

...to a first approximation the answer is YES. Homonuclear covalent bonds, i.e. H-HHH, C-CCC, O-OOO, are CLEARLY non-polar given that there can be no question of a difference in electronegativity between the bound atoms, and electron density is equally shared.

And contrast this with polar covalent, bonds, i.e. H-XHX, or H-OHO...where there is substantial difference in electronegativity, and as a consequence we get polar bonds....the which we represent as stackrel(+delta)H-stackrel(delta-)X+δHδX, etc.