good explanation needed!

Question

ANSWER WOULD BE B CORRECT ?

Her teacher asked her which of the following substances is not made of atoms? *

Option 1

Option 4

Option 3

Answer 1

Option 1. H-Cl contains ionic bonding ( H loses an electron to Cl so we have H⁺ and CL^- ions which are held together because opposite electrical charges attract each other.

Answer 2

Hello, Londyn,

I hope someone else sees something I don't, because it seems as though all options involve atoms. I will note that the first drawing, with non-descript balls of black and white connect by lines, seems like a traditional stick drawing of a molecule showing the bonds between each of it's elements. But there are some unusual features: The black "atoms" have both 3 and 5 bonding sites, and the white ones have both 4 and 6 bonds. The whole structure has an unusual form - the bond angles are all 90^o. Is this a jungle gym? All the other drawings have the elements labelled. An element is an atom, so they can't be the correct choice.

Sorry - that's the best I can do. I really don't have a good answer. Hopefully someone else will see the solution.

Bob