What are resonance structures? What is a resonance hybrid?

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What are resonance structures? What is a resonance hybrid?

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What are resonance structures? What is a resonance hybrid?

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Solution 26 E Step 1 of 1 When a molecule admits more than one possible Lewis structure, we have the possibility to consider a phenomenon called “resonance”. In resonance, every structure differs from the others because it still keeps the same atom disposition, but the electrons’ distribution varies passing from one structure to another In this case we can talk about “resonance hybrid” because none of the structures really exists alone, but each of them contr

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