Bonded and Lone Pairs

Bonding pairs and lone pairs of electrons are charge clouds that repel each other.

 

 

A lone pair refers to a pair of valence electrons that are not shared with another atom and is sometimes called a non-bonding pair.

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Lone pairs are found in the outermost electron shell of atoms.


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A double bond is a chemical bond between two chemical elements involving four bonding electrons instead of the usual two.

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