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nephelauxetic

nephelauxetic adjective: describing the expansion effect of ligands on the electron orbitals of transition metals.

Adjective

nephelauxetic (comparative more nephelauxetic, superlative most nephelauxetic)

  1. Describing the expansion effect of ligands on the electron orbitals of transition metals

Forms of nephelauxetic

comparativemore nephelauxetic
superlativemost nephelauxetic

Questions about nephelauxetic

What does nephelauxetic mean?
Nephelauxetic means describing the expansion effect of ligands on the electron orbitals of transition metals.
What part of speech is nephelauxetic?
Nephelauxetic is an adjective.

Words near nephelauxetic in the dictionary

  1. neph
  2. nephalism
  3. nephalist
  4. nephalists
  5. nephashoth
  6. nephelauxetic
  7. Nephele
  8. nepheligenous
  9. nepheline
  10. nepheline syenite
  11. nepheline-syenite

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