Hydrogen molecular view

One of the most fundamental chemical reactions is the combination of a hydroxide ion (OH ) and a hydronium ion (H3 0+) to produce two molecules of water OH" (a g) + H3 (a g) 2 H2 O (/) A molecular view of this reaction (Figure 4-7f shows that the hydroxide anion accepts one hydrogen atom from the hydronium cation. Taking account of charges, it is a hydrogen cation (H ) that is transferred. The reaction occurs rapidly when H3 O and OH ions collide. The hydroxide anion accepts a hydrogen cation from the hydronium cation, forming two neutral water molecules. 

Figure A molecular view of some nonmetals (not to scale). Many nonmetals naturally exist as polyatomic (many-atom) molecules, (a) The noble gases (Group 8A/18) occur as 1-atom formula units. An example is helium, He. (b) Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine occur as 2-atom formula units. For example, chlorine is CI2. (c) Phosphorus naturally occurs as 4-atom formula units, (d) Sulfur commonly occurs in 8-atom formula units, (e) One form of carbon consists of 60-atom formula units, commonly referred to as buckyballs. The official name of C q is buckminsterfullerene. 

Still, even for the hydrogen molecular system, the difference between the physical and chemical bonding behavior with respect to the bondonic-bosonic condensate emphasizes the specificity of natural law in the chemical realm, which is not necessarily viewed as a reducible physical counterpart. This affirms once more that chemical structure and bonding are special manifestations of nature at the level of atoms and molecules or as the surrealist poet Lucian Blaga writes an unveiled mystery more mysteries revealed . 

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