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Offline CKabes

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Aquo Compounds
« on: September 29, 2012, 04:02:24 PM »
How is it that metals with only 2+ or 3+ charges can form aquo compounds with 6 water ligands? How is there enough room in the  valence shell to accommodate for 6 covalent bonds?
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Re: Aquo Compounds
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2012, 05:09:14 AM »
These elements have d-Orbitals, where ligands can easily bonded.
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