But I waas what? Okay, so, for B, I'm gonna move through this from a little bit quicker, so we're just gonna follow the same exact process. And there we have our lewis dot structure. Um, are there two electrons each? All we need to dio is simply add alone, pissed to a impairs your oxygen. So all we do is since our heart surgeons are already filled with their one electron each. And if we look, we can see our oxygen hasn't filled its octet yet. Each single bond represents two electrons, so we still need for more electrons. All right, So we have our single bonds between, uh, each h and R oxygen, and so we count our elections right now we can see we have to for three or four electrons. But, um, for this example, since we know water is about, we're just gonna keep it as this. So it's fine toe also just have everything in a straight line just like this. You actually don't need to show geometry.
Ah, this kind of bent shape is because we know that in three D space, our water is gonna be better figure Lewis structure. So we'll start with having her Oh, in the center and well, over here are those in the center and we have our h on either side and the reason I'm drawing it in. So we know that typically the most Electra negative, Adam is gonna be placed in the center. Okay, so now we can start tearing it out.
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And this is our hydrogen plus our six for our oxygen, and that's going to give us eight total electrons that we need to represent in our lewis dot structure. So if we to find our eternal elections will simply just do one times two. So for our 1st 1 h 20 each h is going to contribute one electron, and we have two of them, so it'll be one multiplied buyer to h is, and then each oh is going to contribute six electrons. A lewis dot structure is counting the number of valence electrons that we're going to need to have represented.