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What is the Lewis structure of a carbonate ion, CO3\mathrm{CO}_3 ? What is the charge on a carbonate ion?

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Carbonate has one C atom and three O atom.

Write the electron notation for each atom. Valence electrons of C : 44 Valence electrons of O : 66

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