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On Dat Destryoer Gen Chem number 42. It asked which molecules where linear ?
But one of the choices was HCl .... I chose that HCl was not linear but rather tetrahedral.
Well HCl is tetrahedral for electron domain geometry , but linear for molecular domain geometry.
How am I supposed to know which domain they want me to answer from , because technically i was right but I was wrong since they wanted the molecular domain answer And they never specified if they wanted me to decide the geometry based on Electron or Molecular ?
But one of the choices was HCl .... I chose that HCl was not linear but rather tetrahedral.
Well HCl is tetrahedral for electron domain geometry , but linear for molecular domain geometry.
How am I supposed to know which domain they want me to answer from , because technically i was right but I was wrong since they wanted the molecular domain answer And they never specified if they wanted me to decide the geometry based on Electron or Molecular ?