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Article: Super bonding.(FEEDBACK)(hydrogen bonds)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
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- September 27, 2008
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In "Small, but super" (SN: 6/21/08, p. 14), models of the superatoms are shown. I have a question on the first model (A14H7). You show hydrogen with two bonds. How can it have two single bonds with only one electron?
Skip Hackett, Tampa, Fla.
Indeed, hydrogen can't share electrons with more than one other atom at a time. The bonds in question are hydrogen bonds in which no ...