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Explain the structure of carbon dioxide.


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Structure of Carbon Dioxide CO2

  1. The carbon dioxide molecule has two double bonds between CarbonC and OxygenO atoms.
  2. A double bond consists of a sigma and a pi bond which means CO2 in total contains 2 sigma and 2 pi bonds.
  3. The bond angle between Carbon and two Oxygen is 180° as it is linear in structure.O=C=O
  4. The hybridization of C in CO2 issp and O is sp2 hybridized.
  5. With the electronegativity difference in C andO, the bonds formed in CO2 are polar.
  6. But because of two Oxygen molecules on each side of Carbon, the dipole moment gets canceled, and the compound has no final dipole moment.


CO2 Lewis Structure, Molecular Geometry and Hybridization



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