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Does CO2 have a single covalent bond?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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12y ago

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Carbon has 4 available bonds. Oxygen has 2. All bonds must be used up or the compound will not be stable. Each oxygen is joined to the carbon by a double covalent bond. CO2 has 2 double-covalent bonds (4 covalent bonds in total)

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O=C=O structure of carbon dioxide, so yea it does have covlent bond sharing with both oxygens

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13y ago

yes it does. to make it a double covalent bond u would write it as O=C=O two oxygens bond with one Carbon to make it ''happy''

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12y ago

it has two (2) double covalent bonds.

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