Sunday, March 6, 2011

Ax form of CH4

CH4 or methane has a qunique Ax skeleton form.  An Ax form is the simplest form of a drawing of the molecule.  The A is the central atom while the X is the atoms bonding to the central atom.  In some cases an e exists and that resembles the amount of unshared ecltrons there are. In this case CH4 has the form Ax4.  A molecule with the form Ax4 is made up of 4 equally spaced orbitals forming bonds at angles of 109.5 degrees.  The name for a molecule with the form Ax4 is called a tetrahedral.
Ax4 or tetrahedral

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