Do lone pairs repel each other?

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Lone pairs:
Lone pair is pair of two electrons in the valence shell of an atom and is not shared by another atom.
Lone pairs being a pair of electrons are negatively charged and we know that the same charges repel each other.
So lone pairs have the greatest repelling effect because they are placed closer to the nucleus of the atom as compared to bond pairs.

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