I don't own The 39 Clues, Scholastic does :)
I've never actually submitted anything before so I am very very confused about this site- this is just Amy randomly typing during the little free time she has.
The molecular geometry can be determined by various spectroscopic methods and diffraction methods. IR, Microwave and Raman spectroscopy can give information about the molecule geometry from the details of the vibrational and rotational absorbances detected by these techniques. X-ray crystallography, neutron diffraction and electron diffraction can give molecular structure for crystalline solids based on the distance between nuclei and concentration of electron density. Gas electron diffraction can be used for small molecules in the gas phase. NMR and FRET methods can be used to determine complentary information including relative distances, [3][4][5][6] [7]conformational isomerism) that are close in energy on the potential energy surface. Geometries can also be computed by ab initio quantum chemistry methods to high accuracy. The molecular geometry can be different as a solid, in solution, and as a gas. dihedral angles, angles, and connectivity. Molecular geometries are best determined at low temperature because at higher temperatures the molecular structure is averaged over more accessible geometries (see next section). Larger molecules often exist in multiple stable geometries.
That's the great thing about typing a diary. You can go to Wikipedia, look up something that your dweeby brother'll find insanely boring, copy and paste it as the first paragraph. Knowing Dan, he won't be fooled, but anything's worth a try since he found my old diary when we lived in Boston and pretty much killed my social life. Now my life is a little more complicated than who likes who and cute boys- and if people find out certain things, more than my social life may be killed- but I still need to write something down. I'm not stupid enough to write anything really personal, like where I am, in this diary (there you go, other Cahills), we're honestly having enough trouble with these stalkers who write books about us. They're good books- I guess- Dan thinks it's totally awesome that someone would want to write a book about us, but I think deep inside the kid knows that it's not exactly helping the hunt for the clues. Sometimes I get frustrated with him (Sometimes? More like every other second) because he thinks this is all just a big game- which it is, I suppose, a game where all the players end up dead.
But enough. This is a diary, where I write down all my innermost thoughts and feelings- except when I don't. I feel like I'm becoming like the rest of the Cahills, and losing myself in the process. I'm a Madrigal. They warned me about the Madrigals, does that mean that I need to fear myself? Maybe I should name you, diary, like Anne Frank did hers, or perhaps that's a bad omen. Kitty is a nickname for Katherine. Perhaps Anne was an Ekaterina. There's so much I don't know, diary...
I can't think of a name, a name without negative or Cahill connotations. All the names popping into my head seem to be names of famous Lucians, or Janus, or... you get the idea, don't you? Lucians. Ian's a Lucian. He's a jerk. Dan thinks he's my boyfriend. Dan is really, really annoying sometimes, in case I haven't mentioned that. But he is my brother, and he's saved me from death, and I'm sorry to say that Ian's left me for dead. So if Dan wants to tease me... I guess things could be worse. A lot worse. But don't quote me to him on that.
…I'm 5'5 with long reddish hair and green eyes. Nondescript looking. I'm 14 years old, and I've faced death so many times that I've stopped counting. It gets pointless after awhile- it sounds like something Eisenhower Holt would say "I've defied death X amount of times!" I can just imagine it. I'm quiet, and I stutter when I talk, especially around attractive boys. (Well, I'm sure anyone who has a stutter would stutter more around cute boys...) Dan's calling me. I think he broke something. Well, see you soon.
Dated April 26, 2010. At least that's what my computer says.