The shape of water molecule, which should be tetrahedral has a bent or distorted tetrahedral shape with a bond angle 104.5 ° . What could be the reason for this?

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The shape of water molecule, which should be tetrahedral has a bent or distorted tetrahedral shape with a bond angle 104.5 ° . What could be the reason for this?, lp-lp repulsion is more than lp-bp repulsion, lp-bp repulsion is more than lp-lp repulsion, lp-lp repulsion is equal to lp-bp repulsion, presence of lone pair does not affect the bond angle

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Due to presence of lone pairs, the repulsion is more which changes the bond angle to 104.5 ° .

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