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Also, by electron charge, are you referring to the opposite of elementary charge? The systematic name is monohydrogen carbonate(-1), this tells you the formal charge, as would simply adding the charges using the chemical formula of bicarbonate. [HCO3]-

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The bicarbonate ion bonds to monovalent cations like sodium. This means that under normal conditions the bicarbonate ion has one electron available for bonding.

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bicarbonate ion is HCO3-. Each oxygen has two non-bonding electron pairs, so there are six in total.

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There are eight pairs of bonding electrons - two pairs between carbon and oxygen and one pair between each hydrogen and the carbon.

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23 valence electrons

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