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hypervalent compounds

hypervalent compounds is the plural of hypervalent compound.

Meaning of hypervalent compound

Noun

hypervalent compound (plural hypervalent compounds)

  1. Any compound which contains more than eight formally assignable electrons in a valence shell directly associated with the central atom in direct bonding with a number of ligands.

Questions about hypervalent compounds

What is hypervalent compounds the plural of?
Hypervalent compounds is the plural of hypervalent compound.

Words near hypervalent compounds in the dictionary

  1. hypervacuolation
  2. hypervalencies
  3. hypervalency
  4. hypervalent
  5. hypervalent compound
  6. hypervalent compounds
  7. hypervalinaemia
  8. hypervalinemia
  9. hypervaluation
  10. hypervaluations
  11. hypervalue

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