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Q. The shape of water molecule which should be tetrahedral has a bent or distorted tetrahedral shape with a bond angle $104.5^\circ$. What could be the reason for this?

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

Due to presence of lone pairs, the repulsion is more which changes the bond angle to $104.5^\circ$.
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