User talk:Bochum

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Jo e I 03:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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"The previous structure had nitrogen triple-bonded ... which is incorrect." Your statement begs the question of what is "correct" and "incorrect"? The usual approach would be to assign bond orders using bond distances. Here's one data point: "Sodium thiocyanate" P. H. van Rooyen and J. C. A. Boeyens Acta Cryst. (1975), B31, 2933-2934. {DOI|10.1107/S0567740875009326}. A good structural inorganic book would discuss the resonance structures.--Smokefoot (talk) 05:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]