How Is It That Native Peoples of the Andaman Islands

question 9

Essay

How is it that native peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean escaped the 2004 tsunami?

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Definitions:

Conformers

Different spatial arrangements of a molecule that can be converted into one another by rotation around single bonds, without breaking the molecular structure.

HOMO

The Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital, referring to the molecular orbital that contains the highest energy electrons in a molecule.

LUMO

Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital, the lowest energy orbital that can accept an electron.

Hybridization

A concept in chemistry that describes the mixing of atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals that can accommodate the pairing of electrons to form bonds.