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Repulsions between the different types of electron pairs are assumed to be equal, what would have been the shapes of $H_{2} O$ and $N H_{3}$ molecules?

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If Repulsions between the different types of electrons pairs are assumed to be equal then $H_{2} O$ will be linear and ${N H}_{3}$ will be in $T -$ shape.

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