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| Description | Water (H2O) is actually a bent molecule. Oxygen has two lone pairs of electrons that do not bond with another atom. Since water is a tetrahedral molecule, the lone pairs must be adjacent to each other. When this happens, the lone pairs exert a repulsive force on each other effectively bending the entire molecule. This bent nature generates polarity in the water molecule |
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| Author | Thebiologyprimer |
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