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it's half as strong as a carbon-carbon bond.
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So what's the glue that holds B2H6 together?
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And we'll come back to that fourteen lectures from now.
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But there's another thing.
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There's bookkeeping that you do with Lewis structures
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to assign what's called formal charges; not real charges,
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just what charges you write in the formula,
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and you hope they mean something.
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And the bookkeeping scheme you use is
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that each atom is assigned half interest in the bonding pair.
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So if there's a bonding pair,
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for bookkeeping purposes you assign one electron to each.