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Offline Cheemistree8889

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Geometry of Sodium Salts
« on: October 21, 2007, 04:53:41 PM »
I need some help determining geometries of Sodium thiosulfate, Sodium Sulfate and Sodium Sulfite.  I don't understand how the sodiums change the geometry, or if they do at all.  I know that Sodium thiosulfate is tetrahedral but why???  Doesn't the outer sulfur atom and the pi bonds affect the geometry??

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Re: Geometry of Sodium Salts
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2007, 02:40:42 PM »
are you talking about the geometry of the anions in solution or of the geometry of the crystal?
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