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Nyholm and Gillespie refined the VSEPR model by explaining that
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Nyholm and Gillespie refined the VSEPR model by explaining that the lone pairs are localised on the central atom, each bonded pair is shared between two atoms. As a result, the lone pair electrons in a molecule occupy more space as compared to the bonding pairs of electrons.
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