Re: morphing

From: Steve Turner (spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:50:22 GMT

On 29 Aug 2004 05:10:10 -0700, marcus4767@canada.com (Guck) wrote:

>I find it ABSURD that sodium - a metal - and chlorine-a poison gas,
>combine to form NaCl, table salt, which is in the form of tiny little
>white cubes like dice.
>And they tell us that this is done simply by sharing an electron.
>I wonder what we would see if we could see the actual atoms as they
>MORPHED into NaCl from Na and Cl atoms.

It's actually more like electron transfer than sharing, in this case.
NaCl is much more ionic than covalent.

Steve Turner