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The dipole moment of PCl5 is

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  • Dipole moment is defined as the product of magnitude of charge and the distance of separation between the charges. 
  • To determine the ionic character in the covalent compound. 
  • Dipole moment is a vector quantity which has direction as well as magnitude present in the molecule.
  • PCl5 has a symmetrical geometry, the vector sum of the dipole moments of the different P-Cl bonds cancel each other. 
  • Therefore, the overall dipole moment of PCl5 becomes 0.
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