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Draw the Lewis structure for SeS3 and answer the following questions.

Draw the Lewis structure for SeS3 and answer the following questions.How many valence electrons are present in this compound?

How many bonding electrons are present in this compound?

TheLewis structureof the compound is shown in  the image attached. There are 24valence electronsin the molecule and there are twelvebonding electronspresent.What is the Lewis structure?When we write theLewis structure, we are trying to show theconnectivitybetween the atoms in the compound. This is often seen by the use of the dots to show the electrons that are connected to one another. The number of electron dots that we have drawn between the symbol of any two atoms shows us the kind of bond that we have there and by extension the kind of bond that links the two atoms together.We can see that the compound that is under study has in it, three atoms of sulfur and one atom of selinium. One of the bonds to the sulfur atoms is adouble bondwhile the other two atoms are bound to the central selenium atom by single bonds.Learn more aboutLewis structure:brainly.com/question/20300458#SPJ1...

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