Do nonpolar covalent bonds share electrons equally?

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anor277
Apr 19, 2018

Just to retire this question....

Explanation:

...to a first approximation the answer is YES. Homonuclear covalent bonds, i.e. H-HH−H, C-CC−C, O-OO−O, 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-XH−X, or H-OH−O...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+δH−δ−X, etc.

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