Liquid nitrogen diamagnetic, liquid oxygen paramagnetic.
Friday, July 10th, 2009Demonstration of the inadequacies of Lewis dot structures and valence bond theory. Both oxygen and nitrogen look to have their unbonded electrons as pairs. :N:::N: and ::O::O::. Pairs of electrons have magnetic spins which effectively cancel, making it a reasonable prediction that nitrogen and oxygen are both diamagnetic. The experiment uses ...