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Lesson: Chapter 10 — Chemical Bonds

10.2. Covalent bonds 12 of 12

Question 12

How does a Lewis structure differ from a Lewis dot structure of the same molecule?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Each bonding pair is drawn as a short line instead of two dots. That separates the pairs doing the bonding from the pairs that are not, at a glance.

Lone pairs are kept, still as dots — losing them would hide part of the molecule. Every atom is drawn in both notations, and crosses belong to the dot-and-cross diagram, which is a third notation again.

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