Polar Bonds

Tug of war for the shared pair

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Electronegativity: how hard an atom pulls on a shared pair (F > O > N ≈ Cl > C > H).
• Bigger difference → more polar bond; very large → ionic.
• Bond dipole arrows point to the negative end.

Steps

1. Unequal sharing
2. Most polar
3. The O–H bond
4. Bond dipoles as arrows
5. Carbon and hydrogen
6. Least to most polar