When h + forms a bottle of h2o to form the hydronium ion h3o plus this bond is called a coordinate covalent bond because?

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Sienna Carr

Chemistry

5 April, 04:23

When h + forms a bottle of h2o to form the hydronium ion h3o plus this bond is called a coordinate covalent bond because?

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Megan Bean · Answer 1

This is called as such because the proton or H + has taken on both lone electron pairs on the oxygen in the water molecule. As such it is s coordinate covalent bond.