Question

Help

Answer 1

@lowkey

Answer 2

Alright, so do you think you can make a CO2 Lewis Structure for me in order to answer 1 and 2?

Answer 3

I know for the first blank, the central atom would be carbon

Answer 4

It's actually double bonds on the carbon and oxygen so O=C=O
Carbon only has four electrons but wants four more so they can achieve that 8 electron atom that all atoms want. So they kind of force oxygen to share it with them.

Answer 5

well the first blank would be carbon regardless

Answer 6

You're right haha

Answer 7

for the second blank woudl it be carbon and oxygen?

Answer 8

So we established that the first blank would be carbon. Side question, do you know why it's a carbon in the middle not just because we drew it out?

Answer 9

because of the electronegativity

Answer 10

When making lewis dot structures, the atom with the least amount of electronegativity goes in the middle.

Answer 11

Dang it you smarter than me now :/

Answer 12

Yea, so your second answer is right. An alternative would be double bonds but there is no double in the key.

Answer 13

Then for the third question, it is asking about the geometry about the electrons.

Answer 14

One thing that helped me out during chemistry was this sheet

Answer 15

I can get rid of some answer choices, but number three answer is supposed to be sp or linear because there are no lone pairs and they contain double bonds, therefore making it a linear geometry, but there is no word from the bank :/

Answer 16

I don't know what it would be then :/

Answer 17

Hold on, lemme see the sheet.

Answer 18

okay

Answer 19

which sheet?

Answer 20

What choices can we rule out of the answers?

Answer 21

would it be sp bonds?

Answer 22

See, you're correct, I just don't see it in the choices :/

Answer 23

Actually forget it, can we work on this one instead

Answer 24

OH SP WAS CUT OFF

Answer 25

And I also do not know how to do the second picture actually );