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Numsgil:
I can't seem to find a list of polar liquids...

I think HydroChloric whatever is a polar molecule.  H-Cl

The trick is to find a polar liquid that would likely be formed in large amounts under specific conditions (say, a planet's formation).  That narrows the list considerably.

Zelos:
thats a one aswell. those who contain hydrogen is likly to form. and nitrogen should be more than oxygen cause its lighter, but hydrogenflouride is better than chlordide but it should be less of it.

PurpleYouko:
The trouble with Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) is that is is highly reactive. It would utterly destroy a cell membane in seconds.

Zelos:
on a planet where FH is liquid dont you think life would adept its chemicals to not react with it if it didnt "want" it to happen? anyhow I found a list of how polar the molecules are:
HF 1,91
HCl 1,05
HBr 0,8
HI0,42
H2O 1,84
H2O2 2,12
NH3 1,48
SO2 1,63
NO 0,16
NO2 0,4
CO 0,1
CH3OH 1,7
this is in debyes

PurpleYouko:
Trouble is that HF reacts with EVERYTHING

I use it to convert samples of organic tissue, rock, glass, quartz, whatever into liquid form for chemical analysis.

About the only thing it doesn't destroy is Zircon crystals

If you can come up with a way that life could evolve inside a solid zircon crystal then maybe it could work but again the trouble is that although these crystals could initially form as insoluble Zirconium Fluoride, no other chemicals in the chemical soup would be able to leave solution in order to form any viable molecules.

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