At 01:17 AM 6/20/02 -0500, Ronn wrote: (And please don't anyone tell me that the "planetary electron" description is pass�. In cases like this, it helps the visualization better than the "more correct" electron-cloud model. I don't plan to discuss bonding versus antibonding orbitals or sigma and pi bonds either, at least not in this post.)
Wouldn't think to question it... often (carefully) did the same while teaching general chemistry myself. <snip> >A chemist, however, might wonder about my reference to negatively charged >hydrogen ions, i.e., a hydrogen atom with two electrons, as such things do >not normally appear under conditions found in the chem lab.) Of course a physical chemist wouldn't even finch... ;-) Sean
