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Why is the bond angle of sulphur difluoride greater than that of hydrogen sulphide?
Why is the bond angle of $\ce{SF_2 (98.05^\circ) > SH_2 (92.11^\circ)}$?
Isn't this contradicting Bent's rule or otherwise electron repulsion rule ? Fluorine is more electronegative and hence it ...
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What is the correlation between electronegativity and the sharing of electrons?
For example in a C-O bond, the electronegativity difference is 1.2. does this mean that the Oxygen has 1.2 of the shared electrons and Carbon 0.8 (or some other numbers)? Is there a specific equation ...
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Electron Energy Levels? [closed]
New to chemistry; In my book it talks about electrons in atoms moving from one energy level or shell to another and denotes this by n. How does this exactly happen, do electrons move to different ...
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Why does Sulfur have 12 valence electrons in the Sulfate ion? [duplicate]
So I am completely and utterly confused about why sulfur has $12$ valence electrons. I understand in it's configuration, it has $2$ electrons for the $3\mathrm s$ subshell, and $4$ electrons from its $...
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