how to find lone pair in ch4
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Answer:
Well, just to clarify,CH4 i.e Methane does not have a lone pair on the carbon atom which is also the central atom.
Now, there is a proper well defined method to find out how many bond pairs, and lone pairs are there on the molecule.
So,
However we're not gonna do that.
We can clearly see that the Methane molecule has four bonds with hydrogen atoms to carbon atom.
And also we know that carbon has a valency of four and because the carbon atom has now already formed four bonds, this means that there are no more extra electrons, or lone pair electrons so to speak on the carbon atom.
Similar, argument can be made to find out the bond pairs and lone pairs on other standard molecules, however surely there are exceptions too, which can be found out correctly by using concepts of Chemical Bonding and Atomic Structure.
Hope this helps you !
Answer:
there's no lonepair of electrons for methane