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What is the Lewis structure of SiO3?

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::S=Si=S::

= are double bonds

: are single lone pairs

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Theoretically SiO2 should look like CO2: ::O = C = O::

But since the Si-atom is much bigger than C, it is not energetically favorable to form double bonds towards the small oxygen atoms. The delocalized electrons (in the perpendicualar p-orbitals are too far away from the oxygen atoms to prefer this stretched state.

Instead SiO2 is the basic formula unit of a tetraedrical tertiary structure. Each Si-atom covalently binds four oxygen atoms with a single bond. A more accurate formula would be SiO4/2. Each oxygen binds two Si-atoms, so that a crystal structure is formed. This network is very strong wherefore the melting point is way higher than CO2. This is why SiO2(/4) produces sand while CO2 is rather hard to make solid. 不知道

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Theoretically SiO2 should look like CO2: ::O = C = O::

But since the Si-atom is much bigger than C, it is not energetically favorable to form double bonds towards the small oxygen atoms. The delocalized electrons (in the perpendicualar p-orbitals are too far away from the oxygen atoms to prefer this stretched state.

Instead SiO2 is the basic formula unit of a tetraedrical tertiary structure. Each Si-atom covalently binds four oxygen atoms with a single bond. A more accurate formula would be SiO4/2. Each oxygen binds two Si-atoms, so that a crystal structure is formed. This network is very strong wherefore the melting point is way higher than CO2. This is why SiO2(/4) produces sand while CO2 is rather hard to make solid.

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9y ago

The dot structure for silicon dioxide begins with the S atom that has two double bonds branching from it, each attached to a single O atom. The two oxygen atoms then each have two double dots.

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12y ago

I cant add a picture here.I have drawn a Lewis structure of H2SiO3 on the following web. Visit it. It will be remove with in 10 days.

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http://members.optushome.com.au/scottsoftc/chapter04/section4.html If you're referring to quartz, it's in a crystal lattice structure.

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14y ago

Silicon is the central ion with four single bonds to each of the oxygen ions. Each oxygen ion also has 5 electrons around it.

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The answer to your fantastic question is that it has 2 single bonds and one double bond

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13y ago

O::Si::O With two dots on top of each O and two on the bottom of them.

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