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Question
By drawing an electron dot diagram, show the lone pair effect leading to the formation of ammonium ion from ammonia gas and hydrogen ion.
Solution
NH3 has one lone pair of electrons which is donates to hydrogen atom forming a co-ordinate bond. The arrow represents a co-ordinate bond. The arrow points from donor to acceptor atom.
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