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Give the electron-domain and molecular geometries of a molecule that has the following electron domains on its central atom: three bonding domains and two nonbonding domains.

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The geometry must be alike trigonal bipyramidal because there is a total of five domains (3 bonding and two nonbonding). The geometry will be T shaped (three atoms from the bonding domains and two electron pair that form the nonbonding domain). The structure will be similar to the ClF3_3 molecule.

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