¶ Chemical Bonds
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Chemical Bonds:
“The openmost condition or single bonding corresponds in flexibility or mutability with the behavior of gases. The medium packed condition or double bonded hinged arrangement corresponds to the behaviors of liquid aggregates. The closest packing triple bonded fixed-end arrangement corresponds with rigid structural molecular compounds; the closest packing concept which was developed in respect to spherical aggregates only with their concave octa and vector equilibrium spaces between spheres, overlooks a much closer packed condition of energy structures, which however had been comprehended in organic chemistry, that of quadrivalente and four-fold bonding which corresponds to outright congruence of the octahedra or tetrahedra with themselves. When carbon transforms from its soft, pressed coke, carbon-black powder, or charcoal arrangement to its diamond arrangement it converts from triple bonding or so-called closest arrangement to quadrivalence. We might call this self-congruence packing, as a single tetrahedron arrangement in contradistinction to closest packing as a neighboring group arrangement of spheres.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. To Prof. Von Hochstetter, 28 Oct. '64, p. 2.
