Answer to Question #83370 in General Chemistry for Khaled Abdelgalil

Question #83370
how many bond/lone pairs does HCN have
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2018-11-28T14:00:10-0500

Hydrogen Cyanide. In this example, HCN, the Lewis diagram shows carbon at the center with no lone electron pairs. The carbon and nitrogen are bonded through a triple bond which counts as "one electron pair". Hence the molecule has two electron pairs and is linear.

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