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Resonance structures demonstrate one of the weaknesses of the Lewis structure. Molecules represented by a the Lewis structure either have single bonds, double bonds, or triple bonds. The multiple bonds can sometimes be drawn in more than one place. In reality, the multiple bond is averaged out over the molecule, so that all of the atoms may have a 1 1/2 bond or a 1 1/3 bond rather than a single or a double bond.

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Actually there were many limitations of the lewis dot structure but he was very smart and he added added all those limitations to his theory and left none of those. So now we don't have any limitations left with us

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