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Lewis dot structures show how an atom's electrons work together in a certain molecule. They also show what a certain molecule will look like.
yes, diatomic and polyatomic ions can both be expressed in electron dot diagrams, or as your reffer to them; Lewis structures.
Rather hard to represent 3-d depictions of molecular structures on a 2-d surface short of folding the paper. That's around all otherwise it is a simple and common way to depict chemical structures Lewis dot Structures and Covalent bonds are completely different. The Lewis dot takes or gives, while covalent bonds share.
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Two equivalent Lewis structures are necessary to describe the bonding in O3. These structures involve adding a double bond between each pair of oxygen atoms in alternate arrangements.
Lewis structures are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule and the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule. They are also called Lewis dot diagrams, electron dot diagrams, and electron dot structures. See the link below for Lewis structure.
Lewis dot structures show how an atom's electrons work together in a certain molecule. They also show what a certain molecule will look like.
carbon is small molecule
There are three equivalent Lewis structures for CO32.
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Look at double bonds and dotted valence. Double or more bonds equals a linear shape. Also... 2 bonds = linear 3 bonds = linear if dbl or trpl bonded, otherwise bent 4 bonds = triginal poly Etc.
They are called Lewis Dot Diagrams because of the man who came up with the idea, Lewis Gilbert
See this question for how to draw the Lewis Dot structure of any molecule:[http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_draw_Lewis_dot_structuresHow do you draw Lewis dot structures?]
The Lewis structure for OF2 is:.. .. ..:F-O-F:'' '' ''We know that this is the best structure because the formal charge on each atom is 0, and the overall charge of the molecule is 0. Even without formal charge calculations we can predict this structure because we know that Halogens, such as Fluorine, never form double bonds.
yes, diatomic and polyatomic ions can both be expressed in electron dot diagrams, or as your reffer to them; Lewis structures.
Rather hard to represent 3-d depictions of molecular structures on a 2-d surface short of folding the paper. That's around all otherwise it is a simple and common way to depict chemical structures Lewis dot Structures and Covalent bonds are completely different. The Lewis dot takes or gives, while covalent bonds share.
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