Image of a single molecule
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Pentacene.
That's so cool! It looks like a bunch of fuzzy caterpillars.
I was wondering if they were using tunneling electron microscopy for the image, but it seems I'm about a generation behind: it's an Atomic Force Microscope.
Wow!
That's so cool! It looks like a bunch of fuzzy caterpillars.
I was wondering if they were using tunneling electron microscopy for the image, but it seems I'm about a generation behind: it's an Atomic Force Microscope.
Wow!
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One interesting feature to note about the picture is that the carbon-carbon bonds are all the same size (length).
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depicting alternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depicting alternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.
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Originally Posted by magician,Sep 14 2009, 07:38 PM
One interesting feature to note about the picture is that the carbon-carbon bonds are all the same size (length).
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depictingalternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depictingalternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.
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Originally Posted by magician,Sep 14 2009, 10:38 PM
One interesting feature to note about the picture is that the carbon-carbon bonds are all the same size (length).
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depicting alternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.
The wikipedia article I quoted uses the old notation for a benzene ring, depicting alternating single and double carbon-carbon bonds. The newer notation for a benzene ring - a hexagon with a circle inside it - arose when chemists or physicists discovered that the bonds in a benzene molecule are all the same length: about half-way between the length of a single carbon-carbon bond and a double carbon-carbon bond.