646.00 Chemical Bonds

646.01 While tension and compression always and only coexist, their respective structural behaviors differ greatly. Structural columns function most predominantly in compression of inherent limit of length to cross section, whereas tension cables or rods have no cross section diameter-to-length ratio.

646.02 Mass attraction is always involved in bonding. There may not be atomic bonding without either electromagnetic or mass attraction: either will suffice.

646.03 As man’s knowledge of chemical-element interalloying improves, it becomes apparent that critically effective, mass-attractive atomic proximities are intensified by symmetrical congruence. The mass attractions increase as of the second power with each halving of the distance of atomic intersticesthe length of structural tensile members, such as those of suspension bridge cables, relative to a given cross section of cable diameter or of any given stress. The overall lengths trend to amplify in every-multiplying degree, thus approaching infinite lengths with no cross section at all. Incredible? No! Look at the Moon and Earth flying coheringly around the Sun. Every use of gravity is a use of such sectionless tensioning. The electrical tensioning first employed by man to pull energy through the nonferrous conductors, and later to close the wireless circuit, was none other than such universally available sectionless tension.

646.04 Electromagnetic energy is produced by accelerating the inexhaustible mass attraction into other permitted patterns, as we may stir water in a bathtub to develop cyclic rotation.