General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (3rd Edition)
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Author: Laura D. Frost, S. Todd Deal
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.103AP
Methyl isocyanate is used in the manufacturing of pesticides and was the deadly gas released from a chemical plant in the 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands. Determine the shape around each of the carbon in the Lewis structure of methyl isocyanate.
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