Consider the collection of nonmetallic elements: B, As, O,
and I....

Question

Consider the collection of nonmetallic elements: B, As, O,
and I. (a) Which two would form the most polar single
bond?

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone for this problem, we're told to consider the following non metals. We need to identify the pair among the given elements that would form the most polar bond. Okay, so in order to know what's going to form the most polar bond, we need to know the electro negativity values for each of our elements. So let's go ahead and do that. First Four carbon, the electro negativity of carbon is 2. oxygen. The electro negativity is 3.5. For browning, The electro negativity is 2.8. And for selenium the electro negativity is 2.4. So we need to identify which is going to give us the highest electro negativity difference possible and that's what's going to form the most polar bond. So we see here that are most electro negative element is oxygen. So this is our most electro negative and our least electro negative element here is our selenium. Okay, so we need to take the difference between the most electro negative and least electro negative. To figure out the highest polar bond. The most polar bond. So, we have, the answer here is to identify the pair. So our pair is going to be oxygen and selenium. These are the pairs because the difference in electro negativity has the highest difference possible. That's the end of this problem. I hope this was helpful

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