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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?
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Is it diazomethane, cyanamide, or diazirine?
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Nope. Nope. and Nope. 
Has anyone tried googling any of the clues? 
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Correct! hahahaha. I didn't intend for anyone to cheat, but it seemed like no one would get it. 
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I've been known to mix this with honey and hide it from plain view.
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I have NO IDEA what those clues mean, but based purely on the model, I'm going to guess Boric Acid?
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I have NO IDEA what those clues mean, but based purely on the model, I'm going to guess Boric Acid?
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Correct!
Boric acid is really good ant bait. They take it back to the colony and it wipes 'em all out.
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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?
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How the heck can you just look at a representation of a molecule and know what it is?
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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.
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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?
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