Chapter 10, Problem 10.16QP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The reason that why beryllium hydride (${\text{BeH}}_{\text{2}}$) dipole moment is zero should be explained.

Concept introduction:

• The unequal sharing of electron by the atoms in one molecule gives the way to dipole moment.
• That is, in molecule when one atom has more electronegativity than other, it pulls more number of shared electrons towards it and leaves another one with more positivity.k
• Dipole moment of the molecule can be calculate by the following equation

$\text{μ=q}\text{.r}$

Where,

$\begin{array}{l}\text{μ=dipole moment}\\ \text{q=separated charge}\\ \text{r=distance between}\end{array}$