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Offline Uri

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What do the dashed lines in chemical skeletal formulas represent?
« on: July 09, 2009, 01:28:07 PM »
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Re: What do the dashed lines in chemical skeletal formulas represent?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2009, 01:38:56 PM »
They go below, as opposed to those that are solid triangles - they go up.

Remember tetravalent carbon sits in the center of tetrahedron.
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Re: What do the dashed lines in chemical skeletal formulas represent?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 12:17:12 AM »
dash means chemical bond between Carbons while the connection points represent each carbon atom in organic chemistry.
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