Coordination geometry

File:Tetrahedral-3D-balls.png

Tetrahedral (having four points) geometry

Coordination geometry is a way of showing how atoms are put in molecules. Molecules can be arranged different ways. They can be in a cube, a line, a triangle, a pyramid, or other shapes.

Coordination Geometry Media

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  LinearDballs

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  TrigonalDballs

• Square-planar-3D-balls.png

  SquareplanarDballs

• Trigonal-bipyramidal-3D-balls

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  SquarepyramidalDballs

• OctahedralDballs

• Prismatic TrigonalP.png

  An example of prismatic trigonal geometry. Modelated by Discovery Studio 3.1 Visualizer. Cleaned in Pshop

• Pentagonal-bipyramidal-3D-balls

• Face-capped octahedron.png

  Face-capped octahedral coordination polyhedron, as found in the A form of La2O3 for La.