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Answer by Rida Fatima for The Lewis structure of HNO3
Three oxygens are bounded to one nitrogen atom.Oxygen being more electronegative attracts the pair of electron more strogly.One of the oxygen binds with an atom of hydrogen and share an electron with...
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Answer by Jan for The Lewis structure of HNO3
Historically, there was nothing wrong with structures like the one you drew on the right. Iwan Ostromisslensky had no problems drawing 4-chloro-1,2-dinitrobenzene with a pentavalent nitrogen in...
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Answer by Xiaolei Zhu for The Lewis structure of HNO3
Nitrogen is in the second row with no $d$ orbital in the valence shell. It obeys the octet rule and cannot have more than 8 electron. There are exceptions to the octet rule. Having less than 8 electron...
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Answer by ashu for The Lewis structure of HNO3
Well! here is a short quick reply..!!I was pretty sure that the lewis stucture of $\ce{HNO3}$ would be the one with 0 formal charge and than I found this. Though this link only shows how to calculate...
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Even though you may have a filled octet, if the central atom has a positive formal charge, we generally form double bonds until the formal charge is reduced to 0 as close as possible as that will be...
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The Lewis structure of HNO3
So I was checking the structure of nitric acid in Wikipedia, however I couldn't quite fathom why it looked like that because it seemed to contradict the following statement:A Lewis structure with small...
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