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Ronn! Blankenship
ronn_blankenship at bellsouth.net
Thu May 29 23:57:18 PDT 2008
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! :)
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