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Iron and Copper

Iron usually uses two bonding arms to make compounds but it can sometimes use three.

Likewise, copper usually uses two bonding arms to make compounds but it can sometimes only have one.

This is not a problem because you will always be told how many bonding arms the iron or copper atom is using.

iron II

the iron atom is using two bonding arms

iron III

the iron atom is using three bonding arms

copper I

the copper atom is using one bonding arm

copper II

the copper atom is using two bonding arms

   

Atom

Image

Number of Bonding Arms

iron II

Iron II

2

iron III

Iron III

3

copper I

Copper I

1

copper II

Copper II

2

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