All right. So formal charge can actually help us out when we're trying to decide between several Lewis structures that look like they might be comparable in terms of which might be the lower energy or the more stable structure.

好的，形式电荷真的可以,帮助我们决定,在几种路易斯结构中,哪个更可能符合能量更低,或者结构更稳定的要求。

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If we're going to have a way to decide between these two theories, it seems as though we need some other kind of arguments.

如果我们非要找个方法在两个理论之间取舍，那看来我们需要别的论据。

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