What are examples of chemical formulas representing a diatomic molecule?
1 Answer
Apr 29, 2017
Apart from the Noble Gases, ALL of the elemental gases are bimolecular..........
Explanation:
.........i.e. all of the elemental gases are diatomic molecules. Consider,
And all the halogens occur as diatomic molecules; except that bromine is a liquid, and iodine is a gas.
To reflect the molecularity, sometimes you will hear inorganic chemists refer to the bimolecular gases as
Note that there also exist a number of heteronuclear diatomic molecules, e.g.
