One Dial, Not Three Boxes

You'll learnthat bond character is one continuous scale, and that where a bond sits on it is a subtraction.

Chlorine gas, hydrogen chloride and table salt all contain chlorine, and all three behave nothing alike. The chlorine never changed, so whatever makes them different has to belong to the pair. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · ΔEN AS A CONTINUUM · v4

three bonds · one axis · the cloud leans, it never jumps

Before you start

What you're looking at

Three bonds — Cl–Cl, H–Cl and Na–Cl — above one empty axis.

The question

The same chlorine is in all three, so what makes these bonds behave so differently?

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