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The Shape of a Tetrahedron
The shape is tetrahedron. The four bonds are pointed to like the corners of a pyramid. When you line them up in a row you get that nice repetitive up and down pattern, okay? And when there's a double bond so instead of the carbon being bonded to four things it's bonded to three things one of them twice Two bonds to one carbon one bond to another and usually just one hydrogen So we've gotten rid of one of the hydrogens and formed a double bond with a carbon The shape it takes instead is a flat triangle shape, okay 120 degrees apart.
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