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pancake bonds

pancake bonds is the plural of pancake bond.

Meaning of pancake bond

Noun

pancake bond (plural pancake bonds)

  1. A type of chemical bond most prominently observed in polycyclic hydrocarbons, in which the nuclear distance between molecular constituents reaches or exceeds a bond length of approximately 305 pm.
    • Unusually long bonds or short intermolecular contacts occur in the title compounds reminiscent of pancake bonding. Pancake bonding interactions seem analogous to π-stacking interactions, but they display much shorter contact distances than normally seen in van der Waals (vdW) dimers.2012, Habtamu Z. Beneberu, Yong-Hui Tian, Miklos Kertesz, PCCP, 2012,14, 10713-10725

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What is pancake bonds the plural of?
Pancake bonds is the plural of pancake bond.

Words near pancake bonds in the dictionary

  1. panbroils
  2. panbronchiolitis
  3. Panbryde
  4. pancake
  5. pancake bond
  6. pancake bonds
  7. Pancake Day
  8. pancake engine
  9. pancake engines
  10. pancake ice
  11. pancake landing

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