sanitation@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.world · 3 days agoCalm down, Peptolemmy.todayimagemessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1419arrow-down17
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minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoI don’t mean to contradict you because I’m on your side here, but do you mean a hexahedral molecule? Cubes have six faces. An octahedron looks like two pyramids placed base-to-base
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoOh, I see. The atoms are representing the vertices, of which the octahedron has 6. (Oddly enough, the hexahedron has 8 vertices…) That makes a lot more sense. For some reason I was thinking in terms of faces, but that wouldn’t make much sense molecularly…
I don’t mean to contradict you because I’m on your side here, but do you mean a hexahedral molecule? Cubes have six faces. An octahedron looks like two pyramids placed base-to-base
It’s a bit counterintuitive to me too.
Oh, I see. The atoms are representing the vertices, of which the octahedron has 6. (Oddly enough, the hexahedron has 8 vertices…)
That makes a lot more sense. For some reason I was thinking in terms of faces, but that wouldn’t make much sense molecularly…