What is resonance?

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Sunayan S · Truong-Son N.
Nov 18, 2017

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What is RESONANCE?
#=># Resonance is the conception that the electrons of an ion or compound delocalize around the compound by spreading electron density to even out bond orders.

As by #color(red)("RESONANCE"#, the compounds gets stability, meaning that some of the bonds in the compound become stronger and some others weaker; and through this the positive and negative dipoles even out so that a symmetrical molecule becomes nonpolar.

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