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The total number of lone pair of electron in melamine is 6 ? How -_-?
it should be answer 3!? :( please explain this..!

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Solution

we know the valence electrons of nitrogen = 5.

In one bond, one electron is used for bonding.

Number of bonds = Number of electrons used for bonding

Now, we will try to place lone pairs on melamine

Total number of lone pairs = 6


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