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What type of structure is carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide is a compound. Its molecules consist of one carbon atom joined to two oxygen atoms.
What type of covalent bond is CO2?
Hence, CO2 has Polar Covalent Bond.
What type of bond is CO2 polar or nonpolar?
Both CO2 and H2O have two polar bonds. However the dipoles in the linear CO2 molecule cancel each other out, meaning that the CO2 molecule is non-polar.
Why does carbon dioxide have 2 bonds?
The CO2 Lewis structure has two double bonds going from carbon to the oxygen atoms. According to the octet rule, each oxygen atom needs to bond twice and the carbon atom needs to bond four times.