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Deevona
Apr 8, 2015

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The number of bonding electrons is 4 (2 covalent bonds). The number of lone pair electrons is 9 (9 pair electrons on iodine and both chlorine atoms). Central iodine atom has more than 8 electrons. As you can see, it has 10 electrons.

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