4.2Covalent Bonding
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Ranking bonds by 'increasing polarity' means computing the absolute value of the electronegativity difference |ΔEN| for each pair and sorting by magnitude while separately tracking sign to assign δ+/δ− — treating a negative electronegativity difference as automatically 'less polar' instead of taking its absolute value first is the error that inverts which atom gets which partial-charge label.