The Weirdness of Water Part 1/2
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Is That a Better Analogy of These Bonds?
I remember doing bonds at school, but this was sort of the era when you would have policed irene balls and then straws. So our strong covalent bond with the oxygen hydrogen is a bit more like your straw. But when we think about what the electrons are doing, don't actually like to stay stuck in one bond. They are moving around. These are quantum particles. We have a probability, and so they're actually moving all around the water molecule. You've got one h to o molecule bonding with four others. I've heard it described as though it formed like a pyramid shape, yes. And then is that what's happening then, when water is in a
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