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Is oxygen a polar molecule or a nonpolar molecule?
Explain your reasoning.

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Answer:

Oxygen is a nonpolar molecule.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is symmetric, because two oxygen atoms pull on the electrons equally. Propane is also nonpolar.

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