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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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