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ences to access important values if needed for this question The formal charge is the charge an element would have in a molecule or ion if all of the bonding electrons were shared equally between atoms We can draw three inequivalent Lewis structures for carbon dioxide CO The concepts of formal charge and electronegativity can help us choose the structure that is the mc significant representation 1 Assign formal charges to the elements in each of the structures below Formal Charge 01 C 02 0 C 0 A 0 C 0 0 C 0 B C 000 2 The structure that contributes most significantly to the overall electronic structure of CO2 is V