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Okay, now it would be possible to shift electrons here
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and draw a different Lewis structure.
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Which of those two do you think is better?
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Probably the top one.
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Why?
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Okay, there's separation of charge on the bottom. Okay?
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So there's bad charge separation.
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The most electronegative atom, oxygen,
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in fact has a positive charge not a negative charge. Right?
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So that's -- not only is there a charge separation,
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it's in the wrong direction.
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But they're all octets that we've drawn in both structures.