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Draw the Lewis structure for the chlorine trifluoride \( \left(\mathrm{ClF}_{3}\right) \) molecule.
Draw the Lewis structure for the chlorine trifluoride molecule.


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Lewis structure for    (chlorine trifluoride).

1. Identify the total number of valence electrons. Chlorine (Cl) has 7 valence electrons, and each fluorine (F) atom has 7 valence electrons. Since there are three fluorine atoms, we have  from the fluorine atoms. Adding the 7 from chlorine, we get a total of 28 valence electrons.
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