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Number of lone pairs on Xe in XeF6 is:

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Solution

In XeF6,
total number of valence electrons of Xe=8
6 electrons are shared with 6 Fluorine atoms,
Thus 2 electrons are left, i.e., 1 lone pair.
Hence the correct answer is 1 lone pair.

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