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How would you draw a Lewis dot diagram showing hydrogen combined with sulfur?

Answer 1

Can you do this for the water molecule.....#H-O-H#.......?

....whose electronic geometry is TETRAHEDRAL to a first approximation, and the central oxygen atom bears 2 lone pairs. If you can do this for the water molecule, you can also do this for isoelectronic #H-S-H#.......

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Answer 2

Zoe Alexander

To draw a Lewis dot diagram for hydrogen combined with sulfur, place one hydrogen atom (H) with one valence electron next to one sulfur atom (S) with six valence electrons. Share one electron between the hydrogen and sulfur atoms to form a single covalent bond. This results in both atoms having a full outer shell, with hydrogen having two electrons (satisfying the duet rule) and sulfur having eight electrons (satisfying the octet rule). The remaining five electrons on sulfur should be shown as lone pairs.

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