Elemental

This is for the alchemical apprentices of the House of the Wyvern. Herein may be found accounts and recipes of the molecular arts.


Sunday, June 11, 2006

[5.01/5.09] The Atypical Chemistry of Beryllium Chloride

This provides some answers for any lingering questions surrounding the behaviour of beryllium chloride. Rather good answers, too.


Tetrahedral Bond Angles

This article gives mathematical proofs of why the bond angle in a tetrahedral molecule such as methane should be about 109.5 degrees. I suppose some people are more mathematically inclined than graphically, so this should help such hard-core types.


Thursday, June 01, 2006

Invisibility

This article is the proof, in its own way, of what chemists have been saying all the time - repeat after me: bonding leads to structure, and structure leads to properties. Only theoretical so far, this invisibility...