Question #8928d

1 Answer
Dec 31, 2016

Here's how I would do it.

Explanation:

Ammonium sulfate, ("NH"_4)_2"SO"_4, is an ionic compound.

It consists of two ammonium ions, "NH"_4^"+", and one sulfite ion, "SO"_3^"2-".

We must first draw the Lewis structures of each ion. They are:

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and

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Thus, the skeleton structure of ammonium sulfite would be

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