The Role of Electrons in Molecules

Polar bonds are basically just made up of electrons shared between two things, right? So if you have this rope that represents the electrons and there's a flag for like it being perfectly shared in the middle between the two, then if you pull on one side, the flag is going to move towards that thing. But if you, this is where it kind of breaks down to get into the polar molecule. If you had something else that starts pulling back again, the opposite way from the, even further down, that little flag is goingto come back to be right in the middle again. And we're going to examine Teflon, which is a polymer.

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