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Nitroeng is chemically inert. Why?

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Although each of the above has same electronic distribution in bonding orbitals, nitrogen is inert because of non-polar nature of bond and high `N-=N` dissociation energy. Rest all `(CO, CN^(-), NO^(+))` are polar.
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