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Hitchcock Foundation Lectures: "The Development of the Concept of Chemical Bond." January 17, 1983. University of California, Berkeley. Tetrahedral Characteristics of Atoms. (0:30)

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Linus Pauling: I put this slide in of hexamethylenetetramine to show tetrahedral character, the tetrahedral character of atoms. The six carbon atoms are tetrahedrally bonded to the neighbors and the four nitrogen atoms have bonds at three tetrahedron corners to the carbon atoms. This is the first structure of an organic compound to have been determined precisely, the bond lengths and bond angles. It was...

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Date: January 17, 1983
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ID: 1983v.2
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