Low Molecular Weight Molecules
To view the molecules from the links below you will need to have installed on your
computer the chemscape Chime Plug-In for the Netscape or Internet Explorer browser.
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Chime
The computers in the Chemistry Learning Center already have Chime installed.
To display and rotate the molecules, right click, and select either Display
or Rotation.
ALKANES
- Methane
- Ethane, staggered
- Ethane, ecclipsed
- Butane, gauch, 60, 30
- Butane, anti, 180
- Butane, eclipsed, 0
- Butane, eclipsed, 120, 240
- Hexane, anti
- Decane, anti
BRANCHED ALKANES
CHLORINATED ALKANES
CYCLOALKANES
CRYSTALS (The screen will appear blank - right click, select Ball and Sticks from Display menu)
- NaCl, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- CaF2, cubic - 12 atoms per unit cell
- PbS, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- Ar, face centered cubic - 4 atoms per unit cell
- TiO2 (rutile), tetragonal - 6 atoms per unit cell
- CaTiO3 (perovskite), tetragonal - 5 atoms per unit cell
- diamond, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- ZnS (wurzite), hexagonal closest packing - 8 atoms per unit cell
- Na, body centered cubic - 2 atoms per unit cell
- Cu, face centered cubic - 4 atoms per unit cell
- MgAl2O4 (spinel), cubic - 56 atoms per unit cell
- PtS, tetragonal - 8 atoms per unit cell