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Which one of the following statements about carbon monoxide is correct ?A. It has two lone pairs of electrons on oxygen atomB. Carbon atom in it is sp hybridizedC. In formaing metal carbonyls, oxygen is attached to the metal atomD. It has large value of diple moment

Answer» Correct Answer - B
CO has the strucuture : `C underset(larr)=O`: which involves sp
hybridisation of C-atom . Because of donation of
electron by O-atom to C-atom ,it has low polar
character and hence low dipole moment
` (0.39 C m/0.117 D)`.


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