An individual carbon-oxygen bond is polar. Yet carbon dioxide, CO2, which has two carbon-oxygen bonds, is nonpolar because
A) the molecule has an even number of electrons.
B) it has a greater symmetry.
C) the electron-pulls of the two oxygen atoms are equal and opposite.
D) Two of the above are reasonable.
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