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is polar
adjective
Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole).
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Thus, each bond between a carbon and a heteroatom is polar, and the degree of polarity depends on the difference between the electron-attracting properties of the two atoms.
Although monolayer WTe2 is centro-symmetric and thus non-polar, the stacked bulk structure is polar.
Also assume that the K-action on Cn is polar.
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The second participating molecule need not be polar; but, if it is polar, then this interaction augments the dipole dipole interaction described above.
Water is polar (meaning it has an uneven distribution of charge), and hydrogen bonds— one type of weak attractive force— form between it and the adhesive instead.
On one end of the molecule are the phosphate group and one alcohol; this end is polar, i.e., has an electric charge, and is attracted to water (hydrophilic).
Because each actin subunit faces in the same direction, the actin filament is polar, with different ends, termed "barbed" and "pointed".
In contrast to normal-phase chromatography, where the adsorbent surface is polar, in reverse-phase chromatography the elution of substances from the column is in the order of increasing polarity.
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The computer's Web camera tracks the location of the user's face, and then the surface of the display is polar- ized accordingly to deliver separate images to each eye.
Two of these replacements involve apolar-to-polar changes, while the other is polar-to-polar.
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