Question

How many bonding and nonbonding electrons are on the carbon atom in CO2?

Answer 1

Answer:

I believe the answer is B

Explanation:

to be honest i'm not completely sure, sorry

Answer 2

Answer:

There are 8 bonding electrons and 0 nonbonding electron on carbon atom

Explanation:

$CO_{2}$ consists of two C=O bonds.

Total number of valence electrons in $CO_{2}$ are 16.

Two C=O bonds uses 8 electrons from 16 available electrons. Rest of the electrons are used to fulfill octet of two oxygen atoms.

Hence 8 electrons are present as nonbonding electrons on two oxygen atoms.

So, Carbon atom contains 8 bonding electrons and 0 nonbonding electrons.

Lewis structure of $CO_{2}$ has been given below.