'just forces' conjecture

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The 'just forces' conjecture is an alternative conception that a student judges some forms of chemical bonding (e.g., in metallic lattices) to be 'just forces' but not bonding.

This is part of the very common 'molecular' alternative conceptual framework for ionic bonding.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.