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How can you determine the Lewis structure of CH2OH?
Okay, and how do we do that?
We multiply the number of atoms of each element by their corresponding valence electrons, and then add everything up. For CH2OH, we would have (1 x 4) + (1 x 6) + (2 x 1) + (1 x 1) = 12 valence electrons.