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Compounds form their shapes due to the size of the atoms and the repelling of bonding pairs of electrons. The electron pairs repel the the furthest parts of the atom that they can(It's easier if you imagine the atom's outer shell as a sphere, where the electron pairs are as far apart as possible)

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