Explain hoving reasons whether BH4- and H3O+ will have the same or different geometry.
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BH4- will have tetrahedral geometry with a negative charge, whereas H3O+ will have distorted tetrahedral (trigonal pyramidal) geometry. This is because BH4- has no lone pairs of electrons, whereas H3O+ has a lone pair of electrons.
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