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Calm down, Pepto (lemmy.today)
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[–] 23 points 4 months ago (7 children)

You need to learn yourself some molecular geometry. An octahedral molecule forms a perfect right angle due to its bonds. Sulfur Hexafloride (SF6) is one of those molecules. So yes, nature makes perfect right angles.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't mean to contradict you because I'm on your side here, but do you mean a hexahedral molecule? Cubes have six faces. An octahedron looks like two pyramids placed face-to-face

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It’s a bit counterintuitive to me too.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Oh, I see. The atoms are representing the vertices, of which the octahedron has 6. (Oddly enough, the hexahedron has 8 vertices...)

    That makes a lot more sense. For some reason I was thinking in terms of faces, but that wouldn't make much sense molecularly...

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  • [+] -18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Are we talking "in a lab", or "in nature". Because I may not have studied molecular geometry, but I know a lot about metallurgy. And "in nature", every compound contains impurities.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago*

    "in a lab", or "in nature"

    This distinction is meaningless for the purpose of this conversation

    They said octahedral molecules, those are common enough that I think you find several kinds of them in mineral water.

    compound

    Compounds are not molecules

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You are a special breed of pedantic. This is pedantic to the point of questioning if you have any actual intelligence or just a few smatterings of pedantic knowledge.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    The other thing I was thinking is that a swinging object (vine, what have you) will, even for the briefest, infinitesimal moment, form a perfect 90 degree angle to the tree branch.

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