How do lone pairs affect bond angles?

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How do lone pairs affect bond angles?

Sumit Saini 1st Apr, 2022

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Shivani Poonia 2nd Apr, 2025

Lone pairs reduce bond angles by creating repulsion that pushes bonding pairs closer together that causing the angles to be smaller than expected.

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