Question: How exactly do you teach molecules?

Artem Evdokimov answered on 11 Jun 2012:

This really depends on who’s the student 🙂 In general, in order to get people an idea of a molecule one has to first explain the organization of matter into progressively finer levels – like crumbling a piece of sugar into smaller and smaller fragments. Eventually you get a fragment that is so very small that it does not lend itself to further break-down without becoming something else (that is, it would not be sugar any more). That smallest piece is a molecule 🙂