CHAPTER 7

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Molecules

A lot of the art of chemistry involves being able to visualize abstract descriptions of activities that are occurring on the atomic or molecular level. Often these abstractions can be described mathematically with very complex equations that most people will not see until later years in college, if then. In this chapter we show you how to create a few minimalist models that may help you develop intuition about these interactions.

Chemistry books usually are pretty dense with diagrams and equations. As a conscious departure from that, we illustrate the concepts in this chapter with photographs of the models themselves so that ...

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