Ozone Lewis Diagram (1 Viewer)

[superSAIyan2]

Hey guys,

When drawing the lewis electron dot structure for Ozone should we use different colours for each O atom to show that one oxygen atom supplies both electrons in the coordinate bond

 

[someth1ng]

Hey guys,

When drawing the lewis electron dot structure for Ozone should we use different colours for each O atom to show that one oxygen atom supplies both electrons in the coordinate bond

No, use little crosses/dots for electrons - different colours look childish and it's annoying to change pens.

 

[nerdasdasd]

Crosses and dots are the standard representation methods...

 

[superSAIyan2]

i used to use crosses and dots but my teacher said u lose a mark cos it asks for an electron DOT structure; the same is said in Conquering Chemistry.

If you only use dots you will not lose a mark right?

 

[someth1ng]

i used to use crosses and dots but my teacher said u lose a mark cos it asks for an electron DOT structure; the same is said in Conquering Chemistry.

If you only use dots you will not lose a mark right?

As far as I know, that's not true.

This is the CSU (for HSC) way of doing it:

Even if it says *dot* structure, crosses are counted as dots. If your teaches chooses to not allow the standard way, just do all dots but in HSC, do crosses and dots.

 

[nightweaver066]

No real point using different colours in the HSC because in the end, they're all scanned in B&W.

 

[someth1ng]

No real point using different colours in the HSC because in the end, they're all scanned in B&W.

That's a very good point that I didn't think of...

 

[superSAIyan2]

Thanks so much someth1ng and nightweaver066