How many lone pairs on each oxygen atom in the dioxygen molecule?

1 Answer
Dec 28, 2017

Well...two....

Explanation:

The dioxygen molecule has a formal double bond, and each oxygen atom is #sp^2-"hybridized"#. Oxygen from Group 16 has 6 valence electrons....

#:stackrel(ddot)O=stackrel(ddot)O:#

Electronic geometry about each oxygen atom is trigonal planar as we would expect (why?); molecular geometry is LINEAR.....