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I used drawing ALL the time when I was learning about synthetic organic chemistry, and drawings and sketches are invaluable when  discussing ideas about atoms and molecules with everyone from students to professors to interested friends. Words cannot describe a shape nearly as well as an image - and that's all synthetic chemists are really trying to do; make a molecule that is the desired 3D shape and with the right kinds of atoms in the right parts.  Mirror image is very important to medicinal chemists since molecules must be the right mirror image to fit snugly with the 'handed' enzymes and other molecules in our body. Images and drawings are not only important for organic chemists; metals and crystals and any other collection of atoms you can imagine all have shape/structure and chemists often try and represent their ideas on paper. Not to mention drawings of equipment scribbled in lab books across the globe.

I feel like drawing a molecule right now.

Emma.