Why does nitrogen have a maximum covalency of 4? – chemistry.stackexchange.com

As nitrogen has 1 lone pair and 3 electrons, either it should have maximum covalency of 5 or 3. But why does it have a maximum covalency of 4 instead? Why did it leave 1 electron? Why did it have to ...

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