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title: "Each of the following gaseous species contains polar covalent bonds formed by a central atom bonded to fluorine atoms and possesses one or more lone pairs of electrons on the central atom. Which species has a symmetric molecular geometry that causes its individual bond dipoles to cancel completely, resulting in a net dipole moment of zero (\\(\\mu = 0\\))?"
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# Each of the following gaseous species contains polar covalent bonds formed by a central atom bonded to fluorine atoms and possesses one or more lone pairs of electrons on the central atom. Which species has a symmetric molecular geometry that causes its individual bond dipoles to cancel completely, resulting in a net dipole moment of zero (\(\mu = 0\))?

Each of the following gaseous species contains polar covalent bonds formed by a central atom bonded to fluorine atoms and possesses one or more lone pairs of electrons on the central atom. Which species has a symmetric molecular geometry that causes its individual bond dipoles to cancel completely, resulting in a net dipole moment of zero (\(\mu = 0\))?

- **A.** \(\text{SF}_4\)
- **B.** \(\text{BrF}_5\)
- **C.** \(\text{XeF}_4\)
- **D.** \(\text{ClF}_3\)

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