H2O ↔ H+ + OH-
This is what happens when you remove the 2 from H2O and make it HO
What happens if we remove the 2 from H2O and make it HO?
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Inactive Tutor answered • 03/14/19
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This compound is hydroxide ion. The oxygen would have a negative formal charge associated with it because it's missing one bond.
Inactive Tutor answered • 03/26/19
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It become an OH- radical with one unpaired electron
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