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What is the Lewis structure of NO2-?

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There are originally 5 electrons in nitrogen but now 6 due to the addition electron from the ion.

On one side nitrogen forms a double covalent bond with oxygen, on the other hand nitrogen forms a dative bond with the other oxygen (sharing its pair of electron, where all of the shared electrons belongs to one atom). Hence this is the Lewis structure.

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