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The molecular geometry of OF2 is the same as that of the more familiar compound, H2O. Both are not linear, you get an approximately 120o angle between bonds, rather than a 180o angle. That is because you are dealing with an octet of electrons in the outer shell, in the form of four paired electrons. Each pair occupies the corner of a tetrahedron. The electrons repel other electrons, so they must be as widely separated as they can be, while still being close to the nucleus that attracts them. Each fluorine atom is at the point of a tetrahedron, while the other two points contain electron pairs that the oxygen atom already had, before combining with the fluorine.
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