ADI Lab: molecular shapes By Corey Solomon. Period 6
Question: How does the number of substituents around a central atom effect the shape of a molecule?
Claim: As the number of atoms increase the close the atoms our forced to come closer together than the atom before it.
Reasoning: In hydrogen the atoms are 104 degrees apart from each other. In SF^6 the atoms are 90 degrees apart from each other. This proves that the more atoms there are the less room there are for each atom.

Evidence: In this graph, it shows that the number of atoms in a molecule increase the farther down it goes on the list, it also increases the number of atoms in the drawing (of course). This also shows that the more atoms there are, the closer each "stick and ball" are to each other, making the degree smaller.
Created with images by p_a_h - "Molecule"