How to Draw the Lewis Dot Structure for Lithium hydroxide: Lithium hydroxide

Описание: A step-by-step explanation of how to draw the Lithium hydroxide Lewis Dot Structure.

For Lithium hydroxide we have an ionic compound and we need to take that into account when we draw the Lewis Structure. We’ll first draw the metal and put it in brackets with its charge on the outside (video: finding ionic charge:    • Finding the Ionic Charge for Elements on t...  ).

Next, we'll draw the Lewis Structure for the OH - ion and add brackets. We put the two ions together to complete the Lewis structure for Lithium hydroxide. Note that Lithium hydroxide is also called Lithium hydroxide.

How to draw the Lewis Structure for OH - :
   • OH- Lewis Structure - How to Draw the Lewi...  

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Note that is it more common to draw Lewis Structures for covalent (molecular) compounds where valance electrons are shared. In the case of ionic compounds, where we have a metal bonded to a non-metal (or group of non-metals), the Lewis diagram represents a formula unit. Many of these formula units make up a crystal lattice. So when we talk about the structure for Lithium hydroxide we think of it together with other Lithium hydroxide formula units in a crystal (NaCl is a good example of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_....

Lewis Structures are important to learn because they help us understand how atoms and electrons are arranged in a molecule or compound, such as Lithium hydroxide.

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