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lithium has a 1+ charge, and oxygen has a 2− charge. a lewis dot diagram should contain one lithium atom and two oxygen atoms to show how these atoms form an ionic bond.
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Answer : False, there will be two lithium and one oxygen atoms in a unit molecular structure of lithium oxide.

Explanation:

Electronic configuration of lithium is :

In order to attain stable electronic configuration it will loose an electron and form positively charge cation.

The electronic configuration of oxygen is:

Oxygen being second most electronegative atom requires two electrons to attain noble gas configuration stability and form negatively charge ion with 2- charge.:

When two atom of lithium and oxygen comes together , one electron from each lithium atom get transferred to an oxygen atom which results in formation of lithium oxide.

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The answer would be false because the Lewis plot should contain 2 lithium atoms & 1 oxygen atom.

Since the lithium atom only contains 1 valence electron, then it wouldn't be enough to fill the valence shell of the oxygen atom because the oxygen only has 6 valence electrons in its valence shell. So it needs one more, that why it would need 2 lithium atoms.

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