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  4. Carbon tetrachloride has no dipole moment, because

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Q. Carbon tetrachloride has no dipole moment, because

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

Due to symmetrical tetrahedral structure, the dipole moment of one $C - Cl$ bond in $CCl _{4}$ is cancelled by opposite $C - Cl$ bond. Thus a molecule has polar bonds but zero dipole moment.