[5.09] All Kinds of Bondage

Chemical bonding in all its many varieties can be a confusing field of exploration. However, I have found a webpage which actually tries to explore all the main kinds of bonding. Of special note is the teasing little mention of two of my favourite chemical entities - the bifluoride and the triiodide ions.

I suppose that since the hint provided eliminates obvious ways of drawing these entities, students should look up things like 'resonance' and '3c-2e bonding'. The more advanced might want to look up 'Walsh orbitals'. And if even more advanced, might want to take a nap and prepare to study something else. Like this, for example. Heh heh.