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Chemistry For Your Life

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OCam Definition - Oxygen and Nitrogen Are Not Bonded Together

Most things are bonded together because they want this proper number of electrons, especially in the lower elements. So for example, we have nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen has five electrons. Oxygen have six. Neither of them have the really eight is kind of what they're looking for. And usually one of those atoms is better at pulling electrons towards itself than the other. If I broke them apart, just when they're by themselves, say in the middle of nothing,. They're bonded together, they are sharing enough electrons to have eight between the two of them for each of them.

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