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Lewis Structure Hydrogen

February 25th, 2010 A. Belco No comments

Lewis dot structure for Hydrogen carbonate?

I am trying to do a Lewis Dot Structure for Hydrogen carbonate which is HCO3 -1. Does the negative 1 at the end mean that there is less one electron in each valence shell in the oxygens? so instead of 6, there are 5?
thanks

O
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C:O:H
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:O: -1
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top oxygen had six electrons originally, and got two more in sharing a double bond with the carbon for 8 electrons in the outside shell

middle oxygen had six electrons originally, and got one more in a sharing with carbon, and another in a sharing with Hydrogen, for a total of 8 electrons in the outside shell

the bottom oxygen had six electrons originally, and got one more in a sharing with carbon, but it got another by taking it from some unknown source. this extra electron that it took, makes it the source of the “-1″ … this gives it 8 electrons in the outside. the minus one means that a net of one electron was taken for the whole molecule

carbon had 4 electrons originally, and got four more by sharings with the oxygens to get its 8 in the outside

hydrogen did one sharing, which added one electron to its original one to max its first shell out to 2 electrons

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