Cubical atom
Modelo del átomo cúbico
- Date
- 1902 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Gilbert N. Lewis
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
An early atomic model in which electrons sit at the eight corners of a cube to account for chemical valence, developed by Gilbert N. Lewis in 1902 and published in 1916.
What it led to
- direct antecedent of Lewis's covalent electron-pair bond
- influence on Langmuir's cubical-octet atom model
- early contribution to the electronic understanding of chemical valence