How to Draw the Lewis Dot Structure for N 3- (Nitride ion)

A step-by-step explanation of how to draw the N3- Lewis Dot Structure.

For the N3- Lewis structure use the periodic table to find the total number of valence electrons for the N atom. Once we know how many valence electrons there are in N we can distribute them around the central atom with the goal of filling the outer shells of each atom.

Because the Nitride ion (N3-) has an extra electron (the negative sign denotes an extra electron) we need to add that to the 5 valence electrons for the neutral atom N.

In the Lewis structure of N3- structure there are a total of 8 valence electrons. N3- is also called Nitride ion.

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Drawing/writing done in InkScape. Screen capture done with Camtasia Studio 4.0. Done on a Dell Dimension laptop computer with a Wacom digital tablet (Bamboo).

[christyweidenbach]

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[hayleyhawn]

why do we put brackets around it? thanks so much!

[OoiheartskittlezoO]

Thank you for the clarification, three other people online have already made the mistake of saying the N^3- ion have 10 valence electrons because "nitrogen has 7 valence electrons", which is incorrect.

[lwlf]

How many unpaired electrons are there in nitride ion

[begumnurnahar]

Thanku it is very easy to understand 😊

[saakshis]

Sir. Can u show how to draw electron dot structure of ionic compound for aluminium nitride??

[mariaabda]

but from where did it get the 3 electrons

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