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Molecular Structure Visualization: Background Information

Abstracts Concepts

Abstract concepts like Molecular Structure at the level of atoms and electrons are hard to grasp for most students. What the eye cannot see they cannot comprehend. In order to simplify the molecular structure, educators have struggled to create models that can help students visualize the actual 3D structure as opposed to the flat 2D structure shown in textbooks and flat pages of information. (Kozlikova..et al, 2015)

This guide will go through 3D visualization of basic concepts of electrons in orbitals and their attraction and repulsion forces that are based on fundamental theories.

 

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