• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Are we talking “in a lab”, or “in nature”. Because I may not have studied molecular geometry, but I know a lot about metallurgy. And “in nature”, every compound contains impurities.

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      4 hours ago

      “in a lab”, or “in nature”

      This distinction is meaningless for the purpose of this conversation

      They said octahedral molecules, those are common enough that I think you find several kinds of them in mineral water.

      compound

      Compounds are not molecules