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New bonds are made as Flux Science returns to form. #fluxscience

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Before we continue talking about bonding, we have to talk about what urges atoms to do it. And since oxygen likes the attention, we’ll use it as a reference for this entire lesson. Yay, oxygen.

As a reminder, oxygen’s orbital configuration is 1s22s22p4. This means that it has 8 electrons (add the exponents of the orbital configuration). So, if it has an atomic…

Part 1 of the Dance of Chemistry Arc. Atoms, by all accounts, are not considered sentient, or living, yet they make up things that are considered living. #Flux #Chemistry #Science #Bonds

Animation by Bevan Lynch Welcome to the Dance of Chemistry arc. If you’re following from the Elemental Flow arc, you have a perspective that many high-schoolers don’t. To put you at ease, there’s a lot less quantum mechanics in this part. In fact, many chemistry students begin learning from here. It’s a solid place to begin in any of the sciences. Remember the guy at the beginning of the…