to create a molecular model a student will use blue spears to represent nitrogen and white spears to represent hydrogen which option correctly describes a model of ammonia. Would it be one blue spear and three white spears or one blue spear and one white spear or three blue spears, and three white spears,

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Ammonia (NH₃) consists of one nitrogen atom and three hydrogen atoms. Therefore, the correct option to represent a model of ammonia would be one blue spear and three white spears. The blue spear represents the nitrogen atom, and the three white spears represent the three hydrogen atoms.