Complete the definition of resonance
Exercise and reference answers
- Missing parts
- Answer
- skeletal
- Choices
- skeletal
- ionic
- crystal
- Answer
- resonance
- Choices
- resonance
- hybridisation
- polarity
- Answer
- hybrid
- Choices
- hybrid
- lattice
- pair
- Complete the statement
- When one Lewis structure will not describe a molecule accurately, several structures on the same {0} structure are written. This is called {1}, and the contributing forms together make the resonance {2}.
Explanation
Resonance is a description of the model's limits, not of a real oscillation. Source: syllabus Chemistry, Ch 4 Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure.
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