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Web Book Home Page | Chemogenesis Main Index Foreword: Chemogenesis & Chemical Education Part I Atoms | Elements | Periodic Tables 1.1 Introduction to Chemogenesis 1.2 Nucleosynthesis of The Elements 1.3 The Segrè Chart 1.4 Quantum Numbers to Periodic Tables 1.5 The Periodic Table: What Is It Showing? 1.6 The INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables 1.7 Periodicity Part II Structure | Bonding | Material Type 2.1 Mono-Bond Typed Binary Compounds 2.2 Binary Compound Synthlet 2.3 Electronegativity 2.4 van Arkel-Ketelaar Triangles of Bonding 2.5 Tetrahedra of Structure, Bonding & Material Type 2.6 Structure, Bonding & Material Synthlet 2.7 The Classification of Matter: Chemical Stuff Part III Interactions | Reactions | Mechanisms 3.1 The Chemogenesis Analysis: An Overview 3.2 Lewis and Brønsted Models of Acidity 3.3 The Hard Soft [Lewis] Acid Base Principle 3.4 Main Group Elemental Hydrides 3.5 Five Hydrogen Probe Experiments 3.6 Congeneric Dots, Series & Planars 3.7 Quantifying Congeneric Behaviour 3.8 Ligand Replacement Congeneric Series 3.9 Congeneric Array Interactions 3.10 Emergence of Organic Chemistry 3.11 Congeneric Array Database 3.12 The Five Reaction Chemistries 3.13 Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases: A New Analysis 3.14 The Lewis Acid/Base Interaction Matrix 3.15 Patterns in Reaction Chemistry Poster 3.16 Lewis Acid/Base Interaction Matrix Database 3.17 Nucleophiles, Bases & The Fluoride Ion 3.18 Redox Chemistry 3.19 Redox Chemistry Synthlet 3.20 Radical Chemistry 3.21 Diradical Chemistry 3.22 Photochemistry 3.23 Species/Species Interactions 3.24 The Simplest Mechanistic Step: STAD 3.25 Unit & Compound Mechanistic Steps 3.26 The Mechanism Matrix 3.27 Addition To A Double Bond Synthlet 3.28 Pericyclic Reaction Chemistry Part IV Chemical Theory 4.1 Why Do Chemical Reactions Occur? 4.2a Thermochemistry: List Reactions Synthlet 4.2b Thermochemistry: Play With Reaction Synthlet 4.2c Thermochemistry: Bulid A Reaction Synthlet 4.3 Timeline of Structural Theory 4.4 Modern Lewis Theory 4.5 Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion: VSEPR 4.6 Diatomic Species by Molecular Orbital Theory 4.7 Polyatomic Species: Molecular Orbitals 4.8 Organic π-Systems 4.9 Functional Group Database Part V Complexity & Emergence 5.1 Chemistry & Complexity: Systems 5.2 Linear Chemistry Systems 5.3 Chemical Systems Prone to Complexity Part VI Extras 6.1 Chemogenesis Videos 6.2 Chemical Thesaurus Reaction Chemistry Database 6.3 Paper: Chemogenesis 6.4 Paper: Electronegativity as a Basic Elemental Property (FoC) 6.5 Workshop: What is Chemistry? 6.6 Paper: Scientific laws, Dalton’s postulates, chemical reactions
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There are thousands of periodic tables in web space, but this is the only comprehensive database of periodic tables & periodic system formulations. If you know of an interesting periodic table that is missing, please contact the database curator: Mark R. Leach Ph.D. The database holds information on periodic tables, the discovery of the elements, the elucidation of atomic weights and the discovery of atomic structure (and much, much more).

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Year: 2012

PT id = 925, Type = misc data

Atoms, Orbitals & The Periodic Table

One of several animations and explanations/realisations of quantum physics from Data-Burger, scientific advisor: J. Bobroff, with the support of: Univ. Paris Sud, SFP, Triangle de la Physique, PALM, Sciences à l'Ecole, ICAM-I2CAM.

Mark Leach writes:

"What I particularly like about this video is that it shows the quantum fuzziness of the atoms. This explains/shows how and why induced-dipole/induced-dipole (London force) interactions occur, an important class of van der Waals interaction. At any moment, the electron distribution is not perfectly spherical, which means that there is an instantaneous dipole on the atom. This instantaneous dipole is able to induce a dipole on an adjacent atom, with the effect that the two atoms are attracted when they touch. It is as if atoms are 'sticky' like Velcro.

"This effect explains why the Group 18 noble gas elements are able to form liquids and solids [not He] at low temperatures, and why non-polar molecules, such as P₄, S₈ and hydrocarbons are able to condense."

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