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What is the term used to describe the charges on a polar covalent molecule?

a) Intramolecular
b) Dipoles
c) Intermolecular
d) Ionic

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Answer:

b) Dipoles

Step-by-step explanation:

Learned this from some trash textbook.

An example of a polar covalent molecule is H2O.

Hydrogen bonds are basically dipole-dipole interactions between molecules of water. This is an intermolecular phenomena, but is specifically called dipole-dipole interaction. So the molecules themselves must be dipoles since the polar covalent bonds and differences in electronegativity cause partial positive and negative charges forming 2 poles, hence di-pole.

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The Answer:

B) dipoles
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