At least it's better now, I think.


And I just reaped this off faith's blog. Humourous yet brilliant!
"Finding love, is like... forming a covalent bond.

While a covalent bond is the electrostatic forces of attraction for some other atom's electrons, which results in sharing of electrons to form a stable octet (usually), finding love is roughly equivalent to finding something you like in somebody else, in the hope of attaining some form of elusive happiness.

If the two atoms are too far away, the attraction of the nuclei for the electrons is too weak and no bond is formed. But if the distance between the two atoms is too small, internucleic and interelectronic repulsion overrules the nucleic attraction and they get repelled away, so no bond is formed either. It is a delicate balance between the attraction between the nuclei and the electrons and the repulsion that results in the formation of a covalent bond, and really, it does sound awfully familiar to me.

Some bonds are strong and some less strong, some shorter and some longer, but really, all it takes is the right bond energy and strain to break your covalent bonds. So whether you're H-Cl or H-I are a polyatomic MgCO3 (I don't know how that would come about actually), there's always a specific temperature that will result in decomposition, although that would vary significantly between molecules. (Highly charged --> more easily decomposed)

So......... good luck finding your optimal inter-nucleic distance and I hope you're a stable diatomic molecule! (: "