Question: Draw the three equivalent contributing resonance structures for the nitrate ion, NO3. What is the formal charge on the nitrogen atom and on each oxygen

Draw the three equivalent contributing resonance structures for the nitrate ion, NO3¯. What is the formal charge on the nitrogen atom and on each oxygen atom in the individual structures? What is the charge on the oxygens and on the nitrogen in the resonance hybrid structure? Show with curved arrows how the structures can be interconverted.

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