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Use your knowledge of valence electrons and how they affect bonds to figure out how carbon (Group 14) and oxygen (Group 16)
would be attached to one another. In carbon dioxide (CO2), how is the compound structured? (Use "-" to represent a single
bond and "=" to represent a double bond) (1 point)
C-O-O
O=C-O
C=O-O
O=C=O

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Answer: D

Explanation:

O=C=O

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Carbon is in group 14 having four valence electrons and oxygen is in group 16 having six valence electrons hence the correct structure of CO2 is O=C=O.

Carbon and oxygen are nonmetals. Nonmetals form compounds by sharing electrons in a covalent bond.Carbon, a group 14 element has four valence electrons while oxygen, a group 16 element has six valence electrons.

Carbon  can share four valence electrons with two oxygen atoms in CO2 to form the structure O=C=O. In this way, all the atoms now obey the octet rule.

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