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Curie Notes 18: Covalent Bonding and Lewis Structures

Two chlorine atoms cannot rob each other, so they share. We count the electrons, draw the pairs step by step, and weigh single, double and triple bonds.

Learn how shared electron pairs hold molecules together, draw Lewis structures in five steps, and use bond length, formal charge and resonance to check them.