At 07:50 PM Thursday 5/29/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: >That's what a chemist would tend to call it. :D (I had a chemistry >teacher who used that as a lesson in acid-base chemistry, pointing out >that any other hydroxide, particuarly an alkali metal hydroxide, would >be a base, and hydrogen bonded to most other things, particularly >halogens, likewise tended to form an acid. I still sort of remember >the orbital sequence -- 1s2, 2s2, 2p6 .. :)
The fun stuff comes when you get sp^3 hybridization . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
