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Question
By drawing an electron dot diagram, show the lone pair effect leading to the formation of ammonium ion from ammonia gas and hydrogen ion.
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Solution
NH3 has one lone pair of electrons which is donates to hydrogen atom forming a co-ordinate bond. The arrow represents a co-ordinate bond. The arrow points from donor to acceptor atom.
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