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Coordination geometry
Term used in chemistry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coordination geometry is a way of showing how atoms are put in molecules. Molecules can be arranged different ways. They can be in a cube, a line, a triangle, a pyramid, or other shapes.
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