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The hybridisation of carbon in is

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

Answer: A

Carbon forms two sigma bonds to oxygen and has no lone pair, so it has two electron domains. Two domains need two hybrid orbitals, which come from one s and one p orbital, giving hybridisation and a linear molecule.
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