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Describe the hybridization of the carbon atom in the poisonous gas phosgene, cl2co

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Cl2CO  has  sp2  hybridization,  Cl2CO has  one  set  of  pi  bond  and  two  set  of  a  two  set  of  sigma  bond.The  double  bond  between  C and O  atoms  consist  of  one pi bond  and  one sigma  bond.  The  other  sigma  bond  is  between  each c and  cl  bond
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