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Number of water molecules and number of of covalent bonds

Number of water molecules and number of of covalent bonds-example-1

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The oxygen atom shares one pair of valence electrons with each hydrogen atom. Each pair of shared electrons represents one covalent bond, so two covalent bonds hold the water molecule together.

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