Apparently .24nm is twice the Van der Waals radius and .1nm is twice the Bohr radius. I’m not sure which one has a better case for being called the “true radius”.
Ah -- .1nm is also the C-H or C-C bond length, which comes to mind more naturally to me thinking about the scale of an organic molecule—enough to make me wonder where the 0.24 was coming from. E.g. a (much bigger) sulfur atom can have bonds that long.
Apparently .24nm is twice the Van der Waals radius and .1nm is twice the Bohr radius. I’m not sure which one has a better case for being called the “true radius”.
Ah -- .1nm is also the C-H or C-C bond length, which comes to mind more naturally to me thinking about the scale of an organic molecule—enough to make me wonder where the 0.24 was coming from. E.g. a (much bigger) sulfur atom can have bonds that long.