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Hungry 9 (lemmy.likes.cat)

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[–] NerdyPopRocks 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve never really liked the anthropomorphic description of chemical bonding, but maybe it’s actually similar to the addition thing. On the one hand, we can say 9 wants to resolve to 10 and takes a 1, and on the other hand we could say there are a bunch of different ways we could rearrange these numbers but the end result is the same as if we resolve 9 to 10 first. Maybe chemical reactions are similar, so there’s a bunch of configurations that could have happened, but the end result is the same as if we had said fluorine wants that last electron

[–] NerdyPopRocks 1 points 4 weeks ago

Although, electron affinity is a thing… so the analogy does break down pretty quick. Rip