Bonding Questions

  1. The Lewis structure for NH3 has
    1. four bonding pairs
    2. two bonding pairs and two lone pairs
    3. three bonding pairs and one lone pair
    4. one bonding pair and three lone pairs
    5. four lone pairs
  2. How many valence electrons does an aluminum atom have?
  3. How many electrons does a bromide ion have?
  4. Which of the following species has the shortest bond distance?
    1. CO
    2. NO-1
    3. O2
    4. F2
    5. Cl2
  5. In which of the following compounds is the octet rule violated by the central atom?
    1. PF3
    2. SiF4
    3. OF2
    4. ClF3
    5. ClF
  6. The bonding in HCl is best described as
    1. Covalent
    2. Polar covalent
    3. ionic

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