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How could NaCl molecules form triple bond? #36

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s4il3sh opened this issue Nov 30, 2023 · 5 comments
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How could NaCl molecules form triple bond? #36

s4il3sh opened this issue Nov 30, 2023 · 5 comments

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s4il3sh commented Nov 30, 2023

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As shown in the picture, it seems like Cl and Na ions have formed three bonds which is not correct. What is the correct interpretation?
@Pranjal-Srivastava-2023
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How did you figure out the number of bonds from this figure?

@WildJimmy
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I think it's just the weird 3d geometry making it hard to tell and not actually triple bonds, but this one is certainly hard to interpret

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s4il3sh commented Dec 1, 2023

How did you figure out the number of bonds from this figure?

You can see the central planar atoms. It has 3 bonds in every atoms.

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s4il3sh commented Dec 1, 2023

I think it's just the weird 3d geometry making it hard to tell and not actually triple bonds, but this one is certainly hard to interpret

@WildJimmy it seems like an illusion. Something we are missing to interpret this geometry. Maybe we need to see it from different angles.

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Yes it is very tricky and the geometry is making it tougher to understand

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