Pauling, Linus

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Pauling, Linus:

"After X-ray diffraction in 1932, Linus Pauling who received the Nobel Prize for his pioneering exploration of chemical structuring, began to discover that metals were also / see van't Hoff, 1965/ tetrahedrally coordinated and interlinked, not point-to-point but through one another as chains are linked with dynamically coordinate or coincident gravitational centers. If we think of six-edged chain links (remembering that the tetrahedron is a six-edged pyramidal frame) we can envision the manner in which we may link tetrahedra in six different directions. That multidirectional connectibility explains the way in which metals are linked together."

• Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.72-76, 1965

Cross-References

• van't Hoff, 1965