{
  "name": "Ball size against visible stick in a ball-and-stick drawing",
  "desc": "How long a stick shows between two balls when the balls are drawn at a given share of their van der Waals radii, for the O–H bond of water and, at the point where the balls just touch, the C=O bond of carbon dioxide; one drawing per row.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/molecules/the-stick-fiction/",
  "from": [
    "media/water-geometry.csv (shared file)",
    "PubChem PUG-View element records 1, 6 and 8, Atomic Radius section, read 2026-10-24"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Equilibrium geometry of water (O–H 0.958 Å) from Hoy & Bunker 1979, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 74:1, as listed by NIST CCCBDB Release 22 (SRD 101), retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Geometry of carbon dioxide (C=O 1.162 Å) from Herzberg 1966 as listed by NIST CCCBDB Release 22 (SRD 101), retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Van der Waals radii H 120 pm, C 170 pm, O 152 pm from Bondi 1964, J. Phys. Chem. 68:441, as listed by PubChem element records 1, 6 and 8, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Ball radii and visible stick lengths computed 2026-10-24"
  ]
}