Resonance: Delocalized Electron-Pair Bonding
Resonance structures have the same relative placement of atoms but different locations of bonding and non-bonding electron pairs.
O3 can be drawn in two ways:
Neither structure is actually correct but can be redrawn to represent a structure that is a hybrid of the two - a resonance structure.
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