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The Tetrahedral Shape of Methane
In 1874 J.H. Van't Hoff and J.A. Le Bel proposed that the four
bonds to tetravalent carbon point to the corners of a
tetrahedron
. a
regular four-sided geometric figure.
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- Summer '07
- Jung
- Organic chemistry, Platonic solid, 28, Hoff, Le Bel, 1874 J
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