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Description: Resonance structures of the carbonate ion, CO32−. No one of these three structures accurately represents the structure of carbonate, since in reality all three C-O bonds are the same length and the charge on all three oxygens is the same.
Title: Carbonate-ion-resonance-2D
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Author: Ben Mills
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