{"id":197702,"date":"2025-03-07T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=197702"},"modified":"2025-03-07T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:18:34","slug":"the-lewis-structure-of-hno3-nitric-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/the-lewis-structure-of-hno3-nitric-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"The lewis structure of HNO3 (nitric acid)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lewis structure of HNO3 (nitric acid), what is the formal charge on nitrogen? (hint: the hydrogen is on a oxygen) +1 +2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lewis Structure of HNO3:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Count the Valence Electrons<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hydrogen (H) has 1 valence electron.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nitrogen (N) has 5 valence electrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oxygen (O) has 6 valence electrons, and there are 3 oxygens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total: ( 1 + 5 + (3 \\times 6) = 24 ) valence electrons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Determine the Basic Structure<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nitrogen is the central atom, and it forms single bonds with two oxygen atoms and a double bond with the third oxygen atom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The hydrogen is attached to one of the oxygen atoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Place the Electrons<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The oxygen atoms around nitrogen will follow the octet rule. Two of the oxygens will each have a single bond with nitrogen, while one oxygen will have a double bond with nitrogen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The oxygen with the single bond will carry a negative formal charge, and the nitrogen will have a positive formal charge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The oxygen with the double bond to nitrogen will have no formal charge, and the hydrogen is attached to the single-bonded oxygen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Formal Charges<\/strong>:<br>To calculate the formal charges:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Formal charge = ( \\text{Valence electrons} &#8211; \\text{Nonbonding electrons} &#8211; \\frac{\\text{Bonding electrons}}{2} )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nitrogen has a formal charge of +1 because it has 4 electrons from bonding (instead of 5).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One oxygen (with the single bond) has a formal charge of -1 (it has 7 electrons around it, instead of 6).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The other oxygens and the hydrogen are neutral.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Formal Charge on Nitrogen:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The formal charge on nitrogen in the Lewis structure of HNO3 is +1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because nitrogen, with 5 valence electrons, is involved in bonds that lead to only 4 electrons being associated with it (from the bonds), leading to a +1 formal charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lewis structure of HNO3 (nitric acid), what is the formal charge on nitrogen? (hint: the hydrogen is on a oxygen) +1 +2 The correct answer and explanation is : Lewis Structure of HNO3: Formal Charge on Nitrogen: The formal charge on nitrogen in the Lewis structure of HNO3 is +1. This is because nitrogen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}