What is the formal charge formula?
1 Answer
Jun 19, 2016
[See here.](https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-formal-charge-1)
Explanation:
And here.
Clearly we must assign the 2 electrons from each covalent bond. These are shared between the participating atoms.
The 2 electrons shared by a covalent bond are shared between the participating atoms.
