Timeline for Why isn't the molecule of water linear straight?
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| Sep 17, 2021 at 3:39 | comment | added | TRC | @VladimirF - My experience so far at Chemistry.SE (and my passive observation at Physics and Maths.SE) suggests exactly the opposite. At the very least, the schoolchild, when posting here, should atleast have searched Google (and better, textbooks) prior to asking here. Then the question of "What exactly didn't you understand in the Google explanations?" follows. Based on what exactly the OP didn't understand, the answer can be framed in a more focussed way. Again, there's no harm in being curious, but a schoolchild's naive, unresearched questions do not fit SE standards AFAIK. | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 21:21 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | @TRC Even a schoolchild has a right to ask why the molecule isn't straight. The answer can be that it is very complicated (details follow...). That is not a reason to ridicule the schoolchild for asking such question. | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 15:22 | history | edited | Ruslan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 | comment | added | TRC | Not trying to argue, but I am very surprised to see that this question was so extremely well received. I'm pretty sure if I posted such a question on Chemistry.SE, it would get heavily downvoted and closed - the reason being simple: the shape of water molecule is a universal example when VSEPR theory is taught (and if OP has not yet reached the level when VSEPR is taught, it's too early to ask about molecular shapes then). Plus, a simple Google Search yields many satisfactory results. | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1438200966881361928 | ||
| Sep 15, 2021 at 16:33 | answer | added | Jan | timeline score: 23 | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 13:10 | comment | added | Jonathon | Walsh diagrams can be helpful to explain this from a molecular orbital perspective. For a very verbose answer to this and related questions, read this answer chemistry.stackexchange.com/a/57973/11568. | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 12:18 | vote | accept | Trevor Blythe | ||
| Sep 15, 2021 at 10:54 | history | became hot network question | |||
| S Sep 15, 2021 at 9:30 | history | suggested | Alchimista | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the title suggested seems more appropriate.
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 8:30 | comment | added | Alchimista | Beside the fact that this doesn't not affect your reasoning, the hydrogen atoms have a positive charge. | |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 8:14 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 7:38 | history | edited | Urb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 6:26 | answer | added | gandalf61 | timeline score: 42 | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 4:36 | comment | added | niels nielsen | @SohamPatil, why not post this as an answer? -NN | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 4:08 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 3:07 | comment | added | Soham Patil | This is more of a chmistry question anyway the oxygen is sp3 hybridized there a two lone pairs forming a tetrahedral structure with hydrogen and lone pair lone pair repulsion is much stronger than hydrogen hydrogen repulsion. | |
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| S Sep 15, 2021 at 2:54 | history | asked | Trevor Blythe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |