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Chemistry 1A - Lecture 20

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General Chemistry

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  • Although, I admit that its less likely in the case of BF3.... I am fairly certain that ionic bonding is the case in XeF4

  • The error is this... if Xenon was covalently bonded to the flourine atoms... then why would there be two sets of lone pairs? There wouln't.

    There would actually only be lone pairs if Xenon was ionically bonded to the four fluorine atoms. This would also prevent a violation of the octet rule.

    ALSO It is likely the same case with boron trifluoride, three ionic bonds rather than three covalent bonds. This would also preserve the octet rule.

  • @tnguyen318 the study of matter and its changes.

  • I found an error in your lecture at around the 33:00 mark pertaining to the bonding in xenon tetrafluoride and boron trifluoride.

  • good afternooon

  • What is Chemistry?

  • good afternoonnn

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