Determine Which Molecule Is More Polar

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Start date Sep 3, 2008
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jeahomgrajan

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Sep 3, 2008

Hi, i was just wondering how to determine which molecule is more polar if you are given two, for example
CHCl3
CHBr3

you can also draw a lewis structure, which i have, but it seems no help

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Borek

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Sep 4, 2008

Try to think in terms of dipoles present in both molecules.

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