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Question
What type of bonds are present in water molecule? Draw the electron-dot structure of water (H2O).
Solution
The chemical bond present in a water molecule is covalent bond because one oxygen atom shares its two electrons with two hydrogen atoms.
The electron-dot structure of a water molecule is represented as:
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