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is there a trend that can be observed to distinguish lone pairs from bonded atoms

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Answer: The major distinguishing trend between the lone pairs and bodning domains is that a bonding pair has 2 electrons usually coming from different atoms, which overlaps to form a pi or sigma bond.

Whereas a lone pair or a a non-bonding pair is a pair of valence electrons that are not shared with another atom and is sometimes called a non-bonding pair.

In a nutshell, bonding pairs always take part in bonding whereas lone pairs never take part in bonding.

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