{
  "name": "Bonded atoms overlap: nucleus distances against van der Waals touching distances",
  "desc": "Five atom pairs in water, carbon dioxide and ice: the distance between their nuclei against the distance at which their van der Waals spheres would just touch, with the overlap and how deep each nucleus sits inside its partner's sphere; one pair 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)",
    "media/ice-lattice.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",
    "Oxygen–oxygen distance in ice Ih computed for this site from IAPWS R10-06(2009), assuming an ideal tetrahedral network, computed 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",
    "Touching distances, shares, overlaps and depths computed 2026-10-24"
  ]
}