Why do you draw bent lines for skeletal structures instead of straight lines?

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Thinking because you have to distinguish when a Carbon atom is there or not but why bent lines specificially?

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Those represent either a mix of stereochemistry or unknown stereochemistry.

It’s hard to explain what that is using just words and without getting too deep. I’m going to drop in this Wikipedia image and let you ask further questions if that doesn’t make sense!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E-Z_notation_in_alkenes.svg

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