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representations of molecular structure
Diagram of the caffeine molecule, showing colored spheres representing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen atoms, and methyl groups, with labeled bonds and a key for each element.
Diagram showing the formation of a polar covalent bond in a water molecule, with two hydrogen atoms bonding to one oxygen atom to form H2O, illustrating shared electrons and chemical reaction.
Diagram showing the formation of an ionic bond between sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) atoms. Sodium loses an electron to become Na+, chlorine gains an electron to become Cl-, resulting in sodium chloride (NaCl), or table salt.
molecular structure
Figure 22: Scattering of light from molecules (see text).
Figure 1: Arrangements of molecules.
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Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
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Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
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Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Feringa, Bernard
Bernard Feringa
Dutch chemist
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
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Fritz Wolfgang London
American physicist
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Roland, baron von Eötvös
Hungarian scientist

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