The Single Fixed-Bond Misreading of Resonance
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Treating one resonance structure as the molecule's actual, fixed bonding arrangement misreads what resonance describes.
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Reading ozone as truly having one fixed single bond and one fixed double bond predicts two different bond lengths, contradicted by the identical measured lengths.
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A molecule's real structure is the resonance blend itself, not a molecule rapidly flipping between the drawn contributing structures.
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