Anyone know the Lewis dot structure

[wavery]

COOL!!!!!

Where's the little red rubber ball? :confused:

[dkutz]

COOL!!!!!

Where's the little red rubber ball? :confused:

thanks for the laugh I needed that!!!

[Dee4j]

wavery that's too funny-Dee

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Thomas- That's the right idea, but none of the structures follow the octet rule.           the very left-hand C and Si of the 2nd structure, when written with lines for bonds, makes
      ..
: C - Si
        ..  (Double dots s/b over & under Si)
which has the right number of total valence electrons (8; 4 from each) but again does not follow the octet rule.  
Good try though!
                                         -Kevin aka Dee's Little Mathematician  
 

Dkutz- WOW! The structure makes perfect sense!! :yikes:  however how in the world do you draw that on paper using Lewis dots, especially since crystals would continue indefinitely in theory  (each C and Si would keep making bonds OVER and OVER... :eyecrazy: ) But the picture is beautiful even though as wavery said, it is missing a rubber ball.
                                                        -Kevin aka "Nerd, but with a life."
                                                                                 :book:
P.S. I am obsessed with the dancing banana.  :-()


Thanks!!! everyone...of course my dingy son didn't think to ask HIS Chemistry teacher :banghead:

[Recumbentman]

Kevin, I will pass the info on to Thomas, after he replied, he left to go home to Portland...so, you are smarter than my son with a Physics degree!

Mary

[Dee4j]

Kevin, I will pass the info on to Thomas, after he replied, he left to go home to Portland...so, you are smarter than my son with a Physics degree!

Mary

don't tell him that!!! (he just thinks he's all that!  :rolleyes: ) I'm pinning a note to his shirt tomorrow to ask his teacher....DUH...so smart and yet...sometimes... :rolleyes: ugh!!

[dkutz]

Dkutz- WOW! The structure makes perfect sense!! :yikes:  however how in the world do you draw that on paper using Lewis dots, especially since crystals would continue indefinitely in theory  (each C and Si would keep making bonds OVER and OVER... :eyecrazy: ) But the picture is beautiful even though as wavery said, it is missing a rubber ball.
                                                        -Kevin aka "Nerd, but with a life."
                                                                                 :book:
P.S. I am obsessed with the dancing banana.  :-()


Thanks!!! everyone...of course my dingy son didn't think to ask HIS Chemistry teacher :banghead:

Right. The best you could do would just be to draw a small portion of the tetrahedral arranged atoms, 8-12 total atoms?