EP 46 · 41:24

Covalent bond

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41:241916 the formulation of the covealent bond. Yes, this is a guy who should have won the Nobel Prize but didn't. Physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis he formulated the concept of the coalent covealent bond at Berkeley. If you've done um high school chemistry, you know the Lewis dot structures, those are named after him. >> That's him. Uh UC California system on the board. Uh 1917 formulation of surface chemistry. Yes, this is physical chemist Irving Langmir. He formulated the core principles of surface chemistry. The idea of like molecules have to go and interact and things like

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