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Lewis Structures


Lewis structures show both covalent bonds and lone pairs of electrons.



In the above structure, the two lone pairs of electrons are shown on the oxygen molecule. You may recall from the formal charge page that oxygen prefers to have two bonds and two lone pairs of electrons.






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