Hydrides spheroids

Figure 2. Calculated properties of hydride of BCC metal (atomic radius unity) as a function of major axis R of an oblate spheroidal hydrogen just filling octahedral sites indicated...

It might be said in extenuation of the hydridic model that, according to the ideas of Kimball (19), the H atom should enter a more or less spherical electron cloud representing an unpaired electron associated with a metal atom. Thus, LiH is represented in Kimball s theory as a pair of tangent electron cloud spheres, or spheroids, each comprising two electrons of opposite spin centered about a +3 and a +1 nucleus, respectively. This picture is equally applicable to the hydrogen in CH4, HC1, or a metallic hydride—i.e., in all cases hydrogen is surrounded by a pair of electrons. 

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