What Is a Molecule?
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- Atoms, elements, molecules... What's the difference? This is part 3 in the Stated Clearly series: An Introduction to Chemistry. In it you will find a simplified definition of a molecule, you will learn how we model molecules, and you will see actual images of real molecules and their vibrational modes!
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MORE ON OUR DEFINITION OF A MOLECULE
In this video we describe a molecule as "a group of atoms stuck together, usually through chemical bonds"
This definition is great because it's so easy to make sense of, but there are some problems with it. Biologists will sometimes consider a double stranded chain of DNA to be a "single molecule", even though each half of the strand is bound to the other via non-chemical hydrogen bonds. The same is true for some protein complexes composed of multiple sub-units.
Alternatively, some crystals (such as quartz) are made of repeating patterns of atoms all chemically bound. Using our definition, you'd have to consider an entire quartz crystal to be a "single molecule". Chemists don't usually do this, instead they consider each repeating sub-unit to be a molecule. Pure metals have a similar issue.
Language is a living, evolving mess! Even in formal scientific fields where you might expect more consistency.
MORE ON HYDROGEN MOLECULE FORMATION
In this animation we show a hydrogen molecule forming in space via a collision of just two atoms. Normally, this reaction also requires some sort of dust or ice particle to trap atoms as they bind together.
To avoid distraction when teaching the basic concept of a molecule, we chose to ignore this technicality in the animation. You can read here about how hydrogen molecules normally form in space: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
PAPERS DISCUSSED IN THIS ANIMATION
Here is the molecular image by Leo Gross at IBM in 2009: www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Here is the paper on molecular vibrations by Joonhee Lee in 2019: www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Arabic CCs by Mustafa Farqad
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Or at least, that's my understanding of the process involved. It's a bit over my head.
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Wow the image of a molecule taken by IBM was fascinating. And also, I never knew watches worked based on the vibrations of atomic bonds ..
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