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I wouldn't jump to a hasty conclusion; you've not seen what their final exam would look like.

"Write 4,000 to 5000 word essay, on the follies of VSEPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion) theory. Highest scoring work will be published on aeon.co."

It’s too complicated to start from first principles to do any kind of chemistry. We even only have a semi empirical formula (SEMF) for estimating the masses of atomic nuclei

I have a physics degree but I never took chemistry (not even high school, I was too busy with AP Physics). It’d be nice to learn eventually… anyone have any textbook recs? College level is presumably fine