The substance chlorine monoxide, ClO(g), is important in atmospheric processes that lead to depletion of the ozone layer. The ClO molecule has an experimental dipole moment of 1.24 D, and the Cl — O bond length is 160 pm. (b) Based on the electronegativities of the elements, which atom would you expect to have a partial negative charge in the ClO molecule?

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Hi everyone for this problem, we're told the NF three molecule has an experimental dipole moment of 30.24 and the N. F bond length is 135 centimeters identify which adam is expected to have a partial negative charge in NF three. So we want to know which one will have a partial negative charge. And in order for us to do this, we need to Find out what is the electro negativity of each of our atoms. So we have to we have nitrogen and flooring. So our electro negativity for nitrogen is three and our electro negativity for flooring is four. So here we see that flooring is more electro negative and because it's more electro negative, it's going to be the one that will get the partial negative charge. So our answer for this problem is flooring. Flooring is going to be the atom that has the partial negative charge in our NFL three molecule. That's the end of this problem. I hope this was helpful.