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Both carbon-oxygen bonds in the methanoate ion, HCOO, have the same length (1.27pm).
If true enter 1 else 0.
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Solution

The correct option is A 1
There is resonance in C-O bonds and All the carbon-oxygen bonds are identical, and the negative charge is spread over the 2 oxygens. The ion is again delocalised.

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