Talk:Linear (diatomic molecule)

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Merged. Jokermole (talk) 00:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Questions About the Creation of this Page

[edit] Can you provide at least a reference that there is such a term in chemistry?

Thanks, Nergaal (talk) 08:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I am currently working on finding sources, as there are few online.

  • Internally, there are links which concur with my work here, including AXE method and VSEPR, two articles which differentiate the molecular geometry of linear and linear (N/A). However, both of these pages are currently devoid of references.

Jokermole (talk) 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What does N/A stand for? The term used here is diatomic molecule.

Bduke (talk) 13:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

  • (N/A) refers to the number of electron pairs. It's not truly clear what the specific number is. F2 has 3 non-bonding electron pairs, whereas H2 has no non-bonding electron pairs. The term linear N/A refers to the type of molecular geometry. Whereas linear has 2 electron pairs and 2 bonding pairs, linear (N/A) has no specific number of electron pairs (as this may vary).
  • I take back my portions of my previous comments. Linear (N/A) molecules are indeed diatomic- I mistakenly believed that what I now know to be heteronuclear diatomics were not diatomics at all.

Jokermole (talk) 17:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In what way does "diatomic molecule" not provide a proper fit?

And in what way is HF not a diatomic molecule? Even the Australian reference you've given above doesn't actually say that there is such a thing as a linear (N/A) geometry. This all looks a bit dubious to me; I think we need some references please. Chris (talk) 20:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

  • See above portion, please.

Jokermole (talk) 21:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I recommend that this page be converted to a redirect

My guess is that this page was created by a child learning some chemistry, which is fine, but an inappropriate use of Wikipedia. --Smokefoot (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I think this is really here to complete the set of articles on the various shapes that are referred to in VSEPR and the like. Nevertheless I think it should be merged to Diatomic molecule and then made a redirect to there. --Bduke (talk) 23:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Agreeing with the merge. The page on diatomic molecules makes no mention of the fact that they possess no geometry, which may seem minor, but it is nevertheless a property of diatomic molecules.ยทยท TVOtalk 23:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bond angle

This section might be sourced to a tutorial which regrettably comes from my country, but it is nonsense. A bond angle is the angle between two bonds. There is no bond angle in a molecule with just one bond. That section should be deleted. --Bduke (talk) 00:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Removed. Jokermole (talk) 00:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)