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       Daily question-170
   DIR By: Shiva
       Date: May 15, 2013, 1:58 pm
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       The dipole moment of Carbon tetrachloride is zero but Chloroform
       has some dipole moment. Why so?
       #Post#: 2584--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Daily question-170
   DIR By: Potla
       Date: May 18, 2013, 9:35 am
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       [spoiler]
       CCl4 has all four arms equivalently placed along the four sides
       of a regular tetrahedron, so the dipole moment of all the C-->Cl
       bonds cancel off.
       But CHCl3 has a net dipole moment of the three C-->Cl bonds,
       plus a dipole moment due to the C<--H bond which adds up to the
       net dipole moment vector.
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       Re: Daily question-170
   DIR By: Shiva
       Date: May 18, 2013, 3:09 pm
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       Yeah :)
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