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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is also known as “laughing gas”. Write all of the resonance structures for N2O (one of the N atoms is the central atom). Then,
~ calculate the formal charges on all atoms in each of the resonance structures, and then
~ rank the resonance structures in order of importance for determining the structure of the resonance hybrid, and
~ predict the bond order for each covalent bond in the resonance hybrid.