An AB5 molecule adopts the geometry shown here. (a) What is the name of this geometry? (b)

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An AB5 molecule adopts the geometry shown here.
(a) What is the name of this geometry?
(b) Do you think there are any nonbonding electron pairs on atom A? Why or why not?
(c) Suppose the atoms B are halogen atoms. Can you determine uniquely to which group in the periodic table atom A belongs?
An AB5 molecule adopts the geometry shown here. 
(a) What
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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0321696724

12th edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, Eugene LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward

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