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What results from the oxygen atom being at one end of a water molecule and the hydrogen atoms being at the other end?

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The unequal sharing of electrons gives the water molecule a slight negative charge near its oxygen atom and a slight positive charge near its hydrogen atoms. When a neutral molecule has a positive area at one end and a negative area at the other, it is a polar molecule.

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