Lone pairs and bonding

[AlyssaBei_1F]

Can someone explain why larger lone pairs electrons force bonding electrons closer together?

[Chem_Mod]

Lone pairs are 2 electrons in one orbital and exert the largest repulsive forces, pushing bonding pairs closer together.

[Brian Hom 2F]

Lone pairs on bonding pairs have a larger repulsive force that bonding pairs or bonding pairs, so the lone pairs will push bonding pairs closer together for the molecule to reach its lowest energy state.

[Angela Cong 3C]

Because lone pairs are unbound electrons, they have a much larger electron cloud and repulsion energy, thus push down the other electron densities such as the bond angles. In class lavelle showed us that by replacing a molecule (taking it off the stick), the area becomes much more occupied and results in the surrounding bond angles to be pushed away

[Jayde Felix 4H]

Lone pairs give off repulsive forces, so they push the bond pairs closer together, making the bond angles smaller.