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Given information
We are given with the molecule and we have to determine the molecular geometry and make a sketch of each molecule or ion using the bond conventions
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
In central metal atom is chlorine and it has an electronic configuration that is valence electron.
So it form bond pair with a fluorine atom and remaining electron form lone pairs.
Thus has T-shaped molecular geometry.
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