they are the same.
Lone pair is unshared pair of electrons and bond pair is shared pair of electron.
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The lone pair pushes bonding electron pairs away.
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Consider: Number of bonding domains on the central atom Number of non-bonding electron pairs (lone pairs) on the central atom
The lone pair electron region is the place around the central atom where electrons not bonding with another atom can be found. A lone pair of electrons are electrons that are not bonded with other atoms.
because they are not paired....