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for keeping track of valence,
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but they're hopelessly crude
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when it comes to describing the actual electron distribution,
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which you can see experimentally here.
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There is electron sharing.
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There's a distortion of the spheres of electron density
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that are the atoms, but it's only about
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5% as big as Lewis would've predicted,
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had he predicted that two electrons would be right between.
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And there are unshared pairs, as Lewis predicted.
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And again they're less -- but in this case they're even less
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than 5% of what Lewis would've predicted.