Distinguish between the following:
c. A lone pair and a shared pair of electrons

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Distinguish between the following:

c. A lone pair and a shared pair of electrons

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Welcome back, everyone. We have a true or false example in an Adam's outermost shell, a lone pair can be found and in its innermost shell, a shared pair of electrons. So recall that for an electron pair that is a lone pair would be found in an Adam's outermost shell. So we can actually agree with this first part of the statement as true. But we want to recall that for a shared pair of electrons, we have a covalin bond between two atoms. So those electrons are shared by two atoms. So we would disagree with the second part of the statement because a shared pair of electrons are not found in the innermost shell of an atom. They are also found in in atoms outermost shell. And we can think of our water molecule as an example where we have oxygen as our central atom bonded to two hydrogen atoms, where oxygen has two Covalin bonds to the hydrogen atoms and two lone pairs on itself. And each of these electrons directly attached to oxygen make up oxygen's six valence electrons. So we can note down that oxygen has six directly attached Valence electrons where two valence electrons are shared in covalin bonds, two hydrogen. So for our final answer, based on our notes, we can confirm that this statement is actually a false statement. So our final answer is false corresponding to choice being the multiple choice. I hope this made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

Distinguish between the following:
c. A lone pair and a shared pair of electrons

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Key Concepts

Lone Pair of Electrons

Shared Pair of Electrons

Covalent Bonding