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Luke_A_Somers comments on Snape's knowledge of valence shells - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Bound_up 13 April 2015 05:58PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 April 2015 03:32:34PM 10 points [-]

The notion that (neutral) Carbon has 4 electrons to share and prefers to have 4 electrons shared with it is so oversimplified that no one should bother writing it down?

That is, umm, a surprising viewpoint to me.