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What kind of geometry does H2S have?

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It's bent like a water molecule, but with a much sharper bond angle at the sulfur atom than water at its oxygen atom.

Water has a bond angle of about 1040, but in hydrogen sulfide, the angle is only about 920.

This implies that in hydrogen sulfide we have bonding almost entirely with p orbitals. The hybridization we see between the s and p orbitals on the oxygen in water is almost completely absent in H2S.

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