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  2. Formal charge - Wikipedia

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    Formal charges in ozone and the nitrate anion. In chemistry, a formal charge (F.C. or q*), in the covalent view of chemical bonding, is the hypothetical charge assigned to an atom in a molecule, assuming that electrons in all chemical bonds are shared equally between atoms, regardless of relative electronegativity.

  3. Lewis structure - Wikipedia

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    In terms of Lewis structures, formal charge is used in the description, comparison, and assessment of likely topological and resonance structures [7] by determining the apparent electronic charge of each atom within, based upon its electron dot structure, assuming exclusive covalency or non-polar bonding.

  4. Structural formula - Wikipedia

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    Skeletal structural formula of Vitamin B 12.Many organic molecules are too complicated to be specified by a molecular formula.. The structural formula of a chemical compound is a graphic representation of the molecular structure (determined by structural chemistry methods), showing how the atoms are connected to one another. [1]

  5. Charge conservation - Wikipedia

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    In physics, charge conservation is the principle, of experimental nature, that the total electric charge in an isolated system never changes. [1] The net quantity of electric charge, the amount of positive charge minus the amount of negative charge in the universe, is always conserved.

  6. Resonance (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Under the framework of valence bond theory, resonance is an extension of the idea that the bonding in a chemical species can be described by a Lewis structure. For many chemical species, a single Lewis structure, consisting of atoms obeying the octet rule, possibly bearing formal charges, and connected by bonds of positive integer order, is sufficient for describing the chemical bonding and ...

  7. Talk:Formal charge - Wikipedia

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    Formal charge is determined by using a particular method (homolytic bond cleavage) of assigning "ownership" of each of the molecule's electrons to a particular atomic center within the molecule. This process doesn't change the total number of electrons (or protons) in the molecule, so, yes, by definition, the formal charges of all the atoms ...

  8. Here’s What Those Colored Circles on Food Packages Actually Mean

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    Reading the label. You can tell a lot from the design and color of food packaging. The color of a packet of M&Ms, for example, can tell you whether they’re peanut, regular, crispy or caramel ...

  9. Chemical polarity - Wikipedia

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    Two charges are present with a negative charge in the middle (red shade), and a positive charge at the ends (blue shade). In chemistry , polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment , with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end.