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The electron dot diagram for an atom of carbon has how many pair(s) of electrons and how many unpaired electrons

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The resultant structure is shown below. This structure contains four shared pairs of electrons, which are located on all four "sides" of carbon's electron dot structure. Each of these shared pairs was created by pairing one of carbon's unpaired electrons with an unpaired electron from chlorine.

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