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How are carbon oxygen double bonds shorter than single bonds?

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The pi bond in C=O has no fixed electronic distribution. The reason is oxygen electronegativity is more than the carbon. So it has C⁺-O^- structure, due to which the bond length is shorter than single bond length.

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