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Okay, so for today, we have a couple of structures here.
00:04
We're just going to analyze it for the octet rule, validity of the structure.
00:10
And so we're going to start off with this nitrogen structure here.
00:15
And so the first thing i'm going to check is that nitrogen has five valence electrons each as an atom.
00:22
So since there's three of them, we're going to need 15 valence electrons.
00:27
I also see that it is also an an ionine minus one.
00:31
That means 16 valence electrons in the molecule.
00:35
All right.
00:36
Based upon that, what i see here is that, yes, this does have the correct number of valence electrons.
00:44
So, yes, this does have 16 valence electrons represented here.
00:49
So that is okay.
00:52
However, what i do want to note and point out here is this structure and this nitrogen here.
00:59
If i isolate it with that red, i see that there are only two, four, six six valance electrons there.
01:10
It is not obeying the octet.
01:12
There is no octet here.
01:14
And so that makes this invalid...