True or false: Lewis structures
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- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Lewis dot symbols show the valence electrons of an atom.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Lewis dot structures show bonded pairs and lone pairs.
- Statement is true
- No
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- Lone pairs take part in bonding.
- Statement is true
- Yes
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- Some molecules cannot be described by a single Lewis structure.
- Statement is true
- Yes
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- Multiple bonds share more than one electron pair.
What the dot structures show and what they omit. Source: syllabus Chemistry, Ch 4 Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure.