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Cubical atom

The cubical atom was an early atomic model developed by Gilbert N. Lewis in 1916 to account for the phenomenon of valency. It was further developed in 1919 by Irving Langmuir as the cubical octet atom.

It was eventually superseded by the Bohr atom.

External links

• Lewis's paper The atom and the molecule (1916)
• Langmuir's paper The structure of atoms and the octet theory of valence (1919)
• Langmuir's paper The arrangement of electrons in atoms and molecules (1919)

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