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Consider the chemical structure below. What are the formal charges of the atoms shown in red?
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1 of 3To determinate the formal charge we use this relation: We took the number of valence electrons for each atom(for N is five and for O is six) and to that number we substracted the non binding electrons and half of the binding electrons around that atom. The formula for the general calculation of a formal charge is:
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