Question

Give the Lewis dot structure of hydrogen.

Answer 1

Lewis dot structure

G.N Lewis, an American chemist, introduced a simple notation to represent valence electrons in an atom. This notation is called Lewis dot structure

Lewis dot structure of hydrogen

• Atomic number of Hydrogen is 1.
• It has only 1 valence electron.
• Hence we will put 1 dot around H .
• It is represented as

$\mathrm{H}·$