[modest]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

Not triazine, but that's very close. Since this one seems to be especially puzzling, I'll give a huge hint:
The empirical formula is

Is it diazomethane, cyanamide, or diazirine?

~modest

edit:

I see cyanamide was already guessed, sorry

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by modest

Is it diazomethane, cyanamide, or diazirine?

~modest

edit:

I see cyanamide was already guessed, sorry

Nope. Nope. and Nope.
Has anyone tried googling any of the clues?

[modest]

What do you mean like google dry-erase board and see what it's made of? Wouldn't that be cheating?

Melamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~modest

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by modest

What do you mean like google dry-erase board and see what it's made of? Wouldn't that be cheating?

Melamine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

~modest

Correct! hahahaha. I didn't intend for anyone to cheat, but it seemed like no one would get it.

[modest]

I've been known to mix this with honey and hide it from plain view.

~modest

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by modest

I've been known to mix this with honey and hide it from plain view.

~modest

I have NO IDEA what those clues mean, but based purely on the model, I'm going to guess Boric Acid?

[modest]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene

I have NO IDEA what those clues mean, but based purely on the model, I'm going to guess Boric Acid?

Correct!

Boric acid is really good ant bait. They take it back to the colony and it wipes 'em all out.

~modest

[freeztar]

How the heck can you just look at a representation of a molecule and know what it is?

Do you just know them (memorized), or is there a way of deducing it?

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by freeztar

How the heck can you just look at a representation of a molecule and know what it is?

Do you just know them (memorized), or is there a way of deducing it?

It's all based on trends that you pick up after a while.
The way I figured it out:
The smallest atoms are obviously Hydrogen, because they are terminal, and are only bonded to one thing. So far, that gives you .
Next, I looked at what the hydrogens were attached to. Based on the geometry and the number of bonds, it was most likely oxygen. It was an assumption, but a safe one. So that gives you .
That made the rest easy, because based on bonding/geometry trends, the central atom could be Boron or Phosphorous. Phosphorous didn't make sense to me in this instance, but Boron would make it Boric Acid.

[Monomer]

Okay, I've been a little busy...

Well done MB!! I looked at the molecule and wondered how I was going to google that to figure it out.

So, have you got a new chemical to propose?