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The given molecule is .
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
has a total of valence electrons.
Let us draw the lewis structure by distributing these electrons in this structure, with oxygen at the center and fluorine atoms at the terminals.
Oxygen atom forms two single bonds with two fluorine atoms and oxygen has two lone pairs of electrons.
The oxygen atom has four electron domains, two bonding electron domains,s and two nonbonding electron domains. Hence it has a tetrahedral structure.
And the hybridization of oxygen in this molecule is .
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