Development of a Molecular Model Manufacturing Method

A new molecular model manufacturing method which utilized the familiar materials of toothpicks and styrene-foam balls as bonds and atoms respectively was developed. Generally, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in various organic compounds observed in organisms are situationed in the sp^2 or sp^3 hybrid orbitals. Because connection points for these hybrid orbitals are not fixed on the spherical surface of styrene-foam balls, these points need to be set up by a suitable method. A pointer applied to instrumentation technology of spherical surfaces was developed and setting of bond connection points became possible and easy. In application, this new technique makes manufacturing of any molecular model possible.