Asked by Laura

What is the three dimensional structure of methane? Why?
Answered by DrBob222
Methane is tetrahedral because the bonds are hybrids of sp3. According to the VSEPR theory, the bonds want to be as far away form each other as possible; therefore, the carbon atoms is at the center of a tetrahedron and the H atoms are at the four corners of the tetrahedron.
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