Ethylene is a simple but highly useful organic chemical.

February 27, 2011

The Bonds

The bond between carbon and carbon is absolutely covalent because any element bonded with itself is purely covalent. This is a nonpolar bond. To reassure this we can use an electronegativity table. Carbon's value is 2.2.
2.2 - 2.2 = 0 absolutely covalent bond
The bond between carbon and hydrogen is very covalent.
2.5 - 2.2 = 0.3 very covalent bond.

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