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wo. A strange question! if you hybridise the 3s and 3 p orbitals you end up with sp3 and still get the same answer. Perhaps the hybridisation involves d orbitals, if that is what you are being taught.
It can only make three bonds. Boron has three valence electrons and therefore cannot form more than three bonds with no lone pairs.
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wo. A strange question! if you hybridise the 3s and 3 p orbitals you end up with sp3 and still get the same answer. Perhaps the hybridisation involves d orbitals, if that is what you are being taught.
It can only make three bonds. Boron has three valence electrons and therefore cannot form more than three bonds with no lone pairs.
A covalent bond does not have oxygen in it but ionic bonds do and because Boron cannot join with oxygen it can only make covalent bonds hope that helps =)
Without hybridization, oxygen has a valence electron configuration of 2s22p4. Which means it has 2 unpaired electrons; therefore it can form 2 bonds.
Three is the answer expected. Higher valences of phosphorus, in PCl5 for example can be explained by hybridisation although this method is not the only explanation.
What dose the Boron do
Calcium can form the ion Ca2+ and forms many ionic compounds. Hybridisation would indicate we were talking about covalent bonding, calcium is not good at this, for example organo-calcium compounds are much more unstable than magnesium.
Boron is used to make control rods.
Boron is an element in itself.