Question: Imagine describing the bonding in ammonia as arising by overlap of the half-filled unhybridized 2px, 2py, and 2pz orbitals of nitrogen with the half-filled 1s

Imagine describing the bonding in ammonia as arising by overlap of the half-filled unhybridized 2px, 2py, and 2pz orbitals of nitrogen with the half-filled 1s orbitals of three hydrogen atoms.
(a) What kind of orbital would the unshared pair occupy?
(b) What would you expect the bond angles to be?

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