¶ Chemical Bonds
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Chemical Bonds:
'We find Euler and Gibbs coming together in the vertexial bonds, or polyhedral ‘corners,’ or point convergency of polyhedral lines. The bonds have nothing to do with ‘faces,’ and ‘edges,’ per se. Two bonds provide the hinge which is an edge bonding. One bond gives a universal joint. Triple or areal bonding gives rigidity.
'Mass attraction is always involved in bonding. You may not have a bond without attraction, mass or magnetic (integral or induced), all of which are precessional effects. As the Sun’s pull on the Earth produces orbiting, orbiting electrons produce directional field pulls. This was not considered by Euler because he was dealing with aspects of a single system.
‘Gibbs requires the mass attraction without saying so. Mass attraction is necessary to produce a bond. Gases may be tetrahedrally bonded singly, corner-to-corner, or as a universal joint. Gibbs does not say this. But I do.’
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