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How many hydrogen atoms can bond with this oxygen atom?

How many hydrogen atoms can bond with this oxygen atom?-example-1
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Answer:

2

Step-by-step explanation:

there are two lonely pairs

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2 hydrogens

Step-by-step explanation:

oxygen has 3 lone pairs of electrons which do not take part in the bonding leaving two electrons in the outermost shell to be part of it, hydrogen has only one electron in it's outermost shell it needs one electron to be stable so two atoms of hydrogen bonds with one oxygen atom to to share there electrons to be stable.

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