Use lewis structures to explain why br3- and i3- are stable, while f3- is not

If you sketch a Lewis dot structure of I3-, you'll perceive that the center I atom formulates two bonds, and also has three non-bonding pairs of electrons. That's an over-all of five electron pairs - beyond an octet. Lots of compounds disrupt the octet rule that means, but the first long-row elements like F can't because the lower elements like iodine can use an obtainable d-orbital to house the additional pair of electrons (sp3d hybridization), but F just doesn't have a d-orbital that it can use.

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the answer is b because, investigating whether another species of moth also drinks tears might be interesting, but it would not directly explain why this species of moth does.

to explain why this species of moth drinks tears, the scientist could ask: "what nutrients that moths need are in elephant tears? "

the scientist could experiment with moth repellent or oter ways to keep the moths away, but that would not answer his original question.