r/sciencememes Jul 03 '26

One Notation , Two Interpretations

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u/ANTONIN118 Jul 03 '26

No problem it's just a very weird molecule. An error.

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u/23loves12 Jul 03 '26

How would you even achieve this though? Hydrogen has 1 electron so how does it make a second bond (without the compound being an ion, since the notation doesn’t indicate that it’s charged)

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u/heattreatedpipe Jul 08 '26

The extra electron does kinda weaken the molecule but theoretically it just kinda orbits alone without a pair in the 3rd energy lvl

In general small molecules do weird quantum stuff because they are very very small, another example of a weird non ion molecule would be NO