Talk:Ball-and-stick model

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...durch wesentlich kleinere Kugeln angedeutet. "...denoted essentially by smaller spheres.". Smaller than what is not clear to me from the original. I'm tempted to read this as ...wesentlich durch kleine Kugeln angedeutet. or "...essentially denoted by small spheres", but that's not what's written.

try this: "denoted by the relative sizes of the spheres"

[edit] ball-and-stick model bonds are not math lines

The article as is describes this model style's representation of the bonds as "straight lines" and links that to the WP article on lines as mathematical entities. Are we not referring instead to a model's actual component of bonds which may, depending on implementation, be represented with cylinders? It seems the concept of a ball-and-stick model is more general than a purely abstract conception of it. That is, a physical ball-and-stick model may exist, and its bonds are not lines. — 63.249.110.32 00:49, 19 June 2007 (UTC)