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Old February 7th, 2006, 05:12
Aerlinn Aerlinn is offline
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Default Covalent Bonding

With diagrams like these which show atoms covalently bonded, what do the dotted lines and the triangle shape represent? I know they help in representing the 3 dimentional structure of the molecule, but as to what they exactly mean, can anyone tell me? (Because when I look at it, I cant see a 3D shape since I dont know what the dots/ triangles represent)