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We are given an asymmetrical azide ion whose contributing structures have formal charges and we have to draw three important contributing Lewis structures for azide ion .

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Step 1.

A charge that is assigned to an atom in a molecule assuming that electrons in all the chemical bonds are share equally between atoms is termed as a Formal Charge.

The Formal Charge (FC) of any atom in a molecule is calculated as:

 

where,

number of valence electrons in its ground state

number of non bonding valence electrons (that are not involved in chemical bonding) on this atom in a molecule

total number of electrons shared in bonds (that are involved in chemical bonding) with other atoms in the molecule

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