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In your electronegative chart, in my book in states the differences to be from 0-.4 is small, .4-2.0 is intermediate, and anything above 2.0 is large. What is more accurate?

Nicole361

by Nicole361 at March 17, 2011

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1.69 is considered the break point between covalent and ionic bonds with differences above this being ionic.  That intermediate range would be called polar covalent with unequal sharing of the electron pair. 

kroo_jteague kroo_jteague March 17, 2011

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