Typically if oxygen has a formal negative charge, it is participating in ____ covalent bond(s). Report your answer as a whole nu

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Typically if oxygen has a formal negative charge, it is participating in ____ covalent bond(s). Report your answer as a whole nu

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ZanzabumX [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-10-27T03:18:47+03:00

Oxygen is participating in non-polar covalent bond(s)

Oxygen forms 2 covalent bond.

This is because oxygen atoms have 6 valence electrons. This means that it has 2 lone pairs and 2 unpaired electrons that are shared in order to achieve octet configuration.

In this chemistry, the 2 lone pairs on the oxygen are not shared with any other atoms. Instead; they are assigned to the oxygen atom. The formal charge on the oxygen atom is zero. Oxygen's atomic number is 8 and is equal to the sum of the number of its valence and inner shell electrons.

<h3>What is non-polar covalent bonding?</h3>

Nonpolar covalent bonding is a kind of covalent bond in which the bonding electrons are shared equally between the two atoms.

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