Question
What is the molecular geometry of a molecule with 5 outer atoms and 1 lone pair on the central atom?
Answers
Electronically it is octahedral.
Geometrically it is square pyramidal.
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Geometrically it is square pyramidal.
Here are some images.
https://www.google.com/search?q=square+pyramidal+geometry&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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