Open AccessIce and Beyond: Tetrahedral Building Blocks in Crystals
Author(s) -
Catherine E. Housecroft
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chimia international journal for chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2020.735
Subject(s) - tetrahedron , ideal (ethics) , crystallography , materials science , hydrogen bond , molecule , chemistry , organic chemistry , philosophy , epistemology
Tetrahedral building blocks are immensely important in inorganic materials. The structure of ice is ideal for presenting this concept, combined with an introduction to hydrogen bonding. Connecting tetrahedral building blocks is then extended to polymorphs of silica.
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