An independent world of physical-equipment-oriented technology is developed, implemented and supported separately from the IT groups. For simplicity, Gartner refers to physical-equipment-oriented technology as operational technology (OT).
Oxygen Nitrogen Carbon Hydrogen Which atom in the pictured molecule will have the strongest partial positive charge? The carbon that's in C=O Dr. Haxton says the O-O bond is polar and the C-C bond is nonpolar. A good student would say what? Wrong again. Both bonds are nonpolar.
Return to Just Ask Steve Table of Contents. Because a water molecule has a slight positive charge on one end and a slight. negative charge on the other...the attraction of the opposite charges, (electro-static charges) creates what is called surface tension, the weak attraction is called a hydrogen bond.