Why is a CO2 molecule is nonpolar?

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anor277
Jan 11, 2017

There is some, little degree of polarity, of charge separation, in the C−O bonds...........

Explanation:

Neverthless, because the CO2 molecule is LINEAR, the vector sum of the individual C→O dipoles cancels to ZERO. Polarity results from a vector sum that is non-zero, and as a result CO2 is non-polar.

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