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What does it mean to be polar?

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Polar in chemistry, also know as a polar covalent bond, happens when 2 or more non-metals create a bond. Polar bonds are usually liquids or solids and are soluble. For example, water (H2O) is polar covanlent. It is made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen, with hydrogen having a partial positive and oxygen with a partial negative. This means that neither can make full ions, only partial.

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The word polar has a few meanings depending upon context. A Polar Bear is a bear that lives near the (North) Pole. Polar in this sense can mean, related to one of the Earth's two poles. You could have cold polar weather, for example. Sometimes you hear about "polar opposites" meaning two things which are as much opposites of each other as the North Pole is the opposite of the South Pole. In chemistry, a polar compound is one whose molecule has negative and positive poles. Water is the most familiar example. The oxygen atom has a negative charge and the two hydrogen atoms have a positive charge, because the shared electrons are not evenly shared, they spend more time with the oxygen atom than with the hydrogen atoms.

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Bipolar is the word you might be looking for and it means that you change personalities very quickly

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The charges are at the poles of the molecule.

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bipolar mean that like one second you all happy and laughing, and some one can say something and it just set you off, and you get mad and yelling, its just like you snap all the time.

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it refers to an objects magnetism. if it has a magnet field that is directional, then it is polar. if its magnetic field is scattered, then it is non-polar

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In chemistry polar is related to the polarity of molecules - the distribution of electrical charges.

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