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Confusion on drawing a Lewis Dot Diagram?
I have a confusion…
My teacher taught us that when we are drawing a Lewis Dot Diagram, we would start from the top then go clockwise, putting 1 dot each time for every valence. If more than 4, then we would start from the top again, adding 1 more dot beside the previous dot(s).
For example, if according to my teacher, let say:
Hydrogen (H)
the dot should go above H, right?
or
Oxygen (O)
there should be 2 dots above, 2 dots on the right, 1 dot at the bottom, and 1 on the left, right??
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However, when I searched upon the internet, there seems to be differences from mines…why?
example from site: http://www.uoregon.edu/~ch111/images/dotsstruct.gif
Please explain…this is urgent for a project
It doesn’t actually matter if you go clockwise or counterclockwise or up and down and side to side. It doesn’t change the chemistry of the atoms. Your teacher just wants you to learn a standard way of doing it so that you don’t mess up. You don’t *have* to do it the way your teacher says, but you’ll never be wrong if you do.
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