Talk:Atom cluster

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The contents of the Atom cluster page were merged into Nanocluster#Atom clusters on 30 December 2022. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

I removed some stuff which may be true for some clusters, but is definitely not true for all clusters. The problem is that the article previously pretended that it is, in fact, true for all clusters in chemistry. For instance, small carbon clusters are linear, non polycyclic structures. Also, there are many types of clusters that are not necessarily composed of three-membered rings, such as the fullerenes and II-VI metal chalcogenide clusters. Here is what I removed:

The shape of a cluster is based upon a trangular-faced polyhedron, also known as a deltahedron. Using a set of semi-empirical rules devised by K. Wade and extended by M. Mingos known either as Wade's Rules or Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory it is possible to determine, often unambiguously, the shape of a cluster from its chemical formula.

Ed Sanville 22:09, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]