Electron Dot and Lewis Structure

Hello everyone,

We are going to talk about electron dot and Lewis diagrams.

These are ways to draw atoms like Bohr models that only shows the valence electrons.



This is Lewis structures of the atoms in the periodic table.

This is the Lewis structure of CH4.

Electron dot diagrams and Lewis Structure are very similar except for one thing.

Lewis structures represent bonds with a line and electron dot diagrams just has 2 dots to repesent bonds.