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To determine:
The difference between a Lewis structure and a skeletal structure in terms of atoms and bonds shown in the structure.
Introduction:
The molecules of organic compounds are represented by four different ways namely, Lewis structure, skeletal formula, condensed structural formula, and ball-and-stick model.
Lewis structures show all atoms, bonds, and lone pairs of atoms in the molecule. It helps in predicting the molecular geometry and shows the connectivity of atoms in a molecule whereas; skeletal structure is a graphical representation which shows the bonds between the carbon atoms in the form of lines in two dimensions.
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