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Q. The number of lone pair of electrons in a molecule of ethylene glycol is ____.

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Solution:

The structure of ethylene glycol is $HO-CH_{2}-CH_{2}-OH.$ Each $O$ atom contains two lone pairs of electrons. Hence, the total number of lone pairs of electrons will be 4.