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why is co2 hard to break apart than h2o

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In CO2 the dipole moments cancel out, while in H20, they don’t, making it polar. In C02, both oxygens are more electronegative than the carbon, but they pull equally apart from one another, so there is no dipole moment (the pulls cancel)