General Chemistry: Atoms First
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ISBN: 9780321809261
Author: John E. McMurry, Robert C. Fay
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.54SP
Oxalic acid, H2C2O4, is a mildly poisonous substance found in the leaves of rhubarb, spinach, and many other plants. (You’d have to eat about 15 lb or so of dry spinach leaves to ingest a lethal amount.) If oxalic acid has a C─C single bond and no C─H bond, draw its electron-dot structure showing lone pairs and identifying any multiple bonds.
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