Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Chemical story

I wrote this short story as requested by my Chemistry lecturer. The main theme is about valence electron and chemical bonding. 

Many years ago, when human was still at their primitive age, there was a God. The God was known as the mighty Zeus. The whole world was under His graceful care and guidance. Zeus loved the humans so much that He gave them each a power. Thus, He gave them power through “valence electrons”. Nevertheless, Zeus did not wish for the humans to have power beyond their control. Thus, each humans’ power is limited with the number of “valence electron” around them. The most powerful human would be able to operate on its own and in order to achieve that power, one must have 8 valence electron around them. Thus was the rule set by Zeus Himself to help the humans to evolve into a greater species. Nevertheless, for many years did he realize that the human race was young and naïve. Only a little of them were able to operate alone. Sooner later, He realized that these majority of humans required assistance from their kin and friends. Unable to alter the course and simple characteristics of human, Zeus had an idea to curb this problem. The intelligent Zeus then introduced the idea of working together. If a human had only four or less valence electrons around them, that particular human has to either share or accept that electrons from other people in order to achieve 8 electrons. That seemed to solve the problem but Zeus was not satisfied. He realized that as simple as humans could be, they had their own unique character. Some of them were willing to share their valence electron for the greater good. While some of them forcefully accepted the electrons from others through a magical duel. Those who were willing to share bounded themselves together to form a team. Zeus was very happy with this and thus name their sharing as “covalent bonding”. However, Zeus realized that for those who forcefully accepted the electrons from others were based on the concept of survival of the fittest. As the number of valence electrons represented strength and power for the humans, those with more than 4 electrons would actually accept the other number of valence electrons from those who were weaker than them. They absorbed the remaining valence electron just to fill up their empty spaces and achieved the most powerful number of valance electron which was 8. As for those who had 4 and below of valence electron, they were not powerful enough to defend themselves. Thus, they were obliged to donate their remaining valence electrons to the stronger ones. Knowing the very existence of such situation, Zeus then passed down another rule. This rule would protect those who donated their electrons. It worked in such a way that when the weaker ones donated all of their valence electrons, they would regenerate back and have a number of 8 valence electrons. In other words, they would be stronger than before. Satisfied with His own arrangement, He named the process of donating and accepting as “ionic bonding”.

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