Naming the shape

[Raquel Rodriguez]

How many different shapes are their?

[alanaarchbold]

I believe there are 5: linear, trigonal-planar, tetrahedral, trigonal-bipyramidal, and octahedral.

[Nancy Hu - 4E]

There is also pentagonal bipyramidal.

[melodyzaki2E]

There are images online that are seriously helpful in identifying the different shapes, I use them all the time to make sure I'm doing it right.

[Maya_Peterson1C]

There are also other names of shapes when there are lone pairs such as bent, T-shaped, see-saw, etc.

[Albert Duong 4C]

Here is a chart that is quite helpful in determining the name of a shape

[Daniela Alvarado 3B]

in class when Lavelle showed us the tetrahedral, why couldn't we put a bond at the bottom? how does putting the last bond pointing toward us affect the atom?