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Inorganic chemistry, the Glossary

Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds.^[1]

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Acid

An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.

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Acid–base reaction

In chemistry, an acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base.

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Actinide

The actinide or actinoid series encompasses at least the 14 metallic chemical elements in the 5f series, with atomic numbers from 89 to 102, actinium through nobelium.

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Adenosine triphosphate

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Alkoxide

In chemistry, an alkoxide is the conjugate base of an alcohol and therefore consists of an organic group bonded to a negatively charged oxygen atom.

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An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Ammonium nitrate

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Beryllium

Beryllium is a chemical element; it has symbol Be and atomic number 4.

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Beryllium fluoride

Beryllium fluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula BeF2.

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Bioinorganic chemistry

Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology.

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Biomolecule

A biomolecule or biological molecule is loosely defined as a molecule produced by a living organism and essential to one or more typically biological processes.

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Born–Haber cycle

The Born–Haber cycle is an approach to analyze reaction energies.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Bridging ligand

In coordination chemistry, a bridging ligand is a ligand that connects two or more atoms, usually metal ions.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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Cadmium selenide

Cadmium selenide is an inorganic compound with the formula CdSe.

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Carbocation

A carbocation is an ion with a positively charged carbon atom.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Carbon nanotube

A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometre range (nanoscale).

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Carbon-13

Carbon-13 (13C) is a natural, stable isotope of carbon with a nucleus containing six protons and seven neutrons.

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Carbonate

A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.

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Carboxypeptidase

A carboxypeptidase (EC number 3.4.16 - 3.4.18) is a protease enzyme that hydrolyzes (cleaves) a peptide bond at the carboxy-terminal (C-terminal) end of a protein or peptide.

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Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch (27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Chelation

Chelation is a type of bonding of ions and the molecules to metal ions.

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Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) containing atoms from more than one chemical element held together by chemical bonds.

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Chemical polarity

In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole moment, with a negatively charged end and a positively charged end.

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Chemical structure

A chemical structure of a molecule is a spatial arrangement of its atoms and their chemical bonds.

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Chemical synthesis

Chemical synthesis (chemical combination) is the artificial execution of chemical reactions to obtain one or several products.

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Chloride

The term chloride refers to a compound or molecule that contains either a chlorine ion, which is a negatively charged chlorine atom, or a non-charged chlorine atom covalently bonded to the rest of the molecule by a single bond.

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Chlorine trifluoride

Chlorine trifluoride is an interhalogen compound with the formula.

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Cisplatin

Cisplatin is a chemical compound with formula cis-.

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Coating

A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, or substrate.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Condensed matter physics

Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and electrons.

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Coordination complex

A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the coordination centre, and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.

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Copper(II) acetate

Copper(II) acetate, also referred to as cupric acetate, is the chemical compound with the formula Cu(OAc)2 where AcO− is acetate.

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Critical point (thermodynamics)

In thermodynamics, a critical point (or critical state) is the end point of a phase equilibrium curve.

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Cryogenics

In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.

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Crystal field theory

In molecular physics, crystal field theory (CFT) describes the breaking of degeneracies of electron orbital states, usually d or f orbitals, due to a static electric field produced by a surrounding charge distribution (anion neighbors).

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Crystallography

Crystallography is the branch of science devoted to the study of molecular and crystalline structure and properties.

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Cyanide

In chemistry, cyanide is a chemical compound that contains a functional group.

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Cyanocobalamin

Cyanocobalamin is a form of 12 used to treat and prevent 12 deficiency except in the presence of cyanide toxicity.

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Cyclic voltammetry

In electrochemistry, cyclic voltammetry (CV) is a type of potentiodynamic measurement.

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Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer

Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer is an organometallic compound with the formula 2, often abbreviated to Cp2Fe2(CO)4, 2 or even Fp2, with the colloquial name "fip dimer".

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Decaborane

Decaborane, also called decaborane(14), is the borane with the chemical formula B10H14.

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Degenerate energy levels

In quantum mechanics, an energy level is degenerate if it corresponds to two or more different measurable states of a quantum system.

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Diatomic molecule

Diatomic molecules are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements.

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Diborane

Diborane(6), commonly known as diborane, is the chemical compound with the formula B2H6.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change.

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Electron affinity

The electron affinity (Eea) of an atom or molecule is defined as the amount of energy release when an electron attaches to a neutral atom or molecule in the gaseous state to form an anion.

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Electron counting

In chemistry, electron counting is a formalism for assigning a number of valence electrons to individual atoms in a molecule.

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Electron nuclear double resonance

Electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) is a magnetic resonance technique for elucidating the molecular and electronic structure of paramagnetic species.

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Electron paramagnetic resonance

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) or electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a method for studying materials that have unpaired electrons.

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Electron transfer

Electron transfer (ET) occurs when an electron relocates from an atom or molecule to another such chemical entity.

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Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.

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Enantiomer

In chemistry, an enantiomer (/ɪˈnænti.əmər, ɛ-, -oʊ-/ ''ih-NAN-tee-ə-mər''; from Ancient Greek ἐναντίος (enantíos) 'opposite', and μέρος (méros) 'part') – also called optical isomer, antipode, or optical antipode – is one of two stereoisomers that are nonsuperposable onto their own mirror image.

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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), also called EDTA acid after its own abbreviation, is an aminopolycarboxylic acid with the formula 2.

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Ferricyanide

Ferricyanide is the anion 3−.

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Ferrocene

Ferrocene is an organometallic compound with the formula.

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Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber (9 December 186829 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

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Fuel

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.

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Fullerene

A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon whose molecules consist of carbon atoms connected by single and double bonds so as to form a closed or partially closed mesh, with fused rings of five to seven atoms.

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Gadolinium

Gadolinium is a chemical element; it has symbol Gd and atomic number 64.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.

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Glovebox

A glovebox (or glove box) is a sealed container that is designed to allow one to manipulate objects where a separate atmosphere is desired.

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Group (periodic table)

In chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements.

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Group theory

In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Haber process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia.

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Halide

In chemistry, a halide (rarely halogenide) is a binary chemical compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative (or more electropositive) than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, astatide, or theoretically tennesside compound.

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Hemoglobin

Hemoglobin (haemoglobin, Hb or Hgb) is a protein containing iron that facilitates the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.

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Heterogeneous catalysis

Heterogeneous catalysis is catalysis where the phase of catalysts differs from that of the reagents or products.

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Hexaamminecobalt(III) chloride

Hexaamminecobalt(III) chloride is the chemical compound with the formula Cl3.

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Hexol

In chemistry, hexol is a cation with formula 6+ — a coordination complex consisting of four cobalt cations in oxidation state +3, twelve ammonia molecules, and six hydroxy anions, with a net charge of +6.

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Homogeneous catalysis

In chemistry, homogeneous catalysis is catalysis where the catalyst is in same phase as reactants, principally by a soluble catalyst in a solution.

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HSAB theory

HSAB is an acronym for "hard and soft (Lewis) acids and bases".

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Humic substance

Humic substances (HS) are coloured recalcitrant organic compounds naturally formed during long-term decomposition and transformation of biomass residues.

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Hydrogen atom

A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen.

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Hydroxide

Hydroxide is a diatomic anion with chemical formula OH−.

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Hypervalent molecule

In chemistry, a hypervalent molecule (the phenomenon is sometimes colloquially known as expanded octet) is a molecule that contains one or more main group elements apparently bearing more than eight electrons in their valence shells.

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Infrared spectroscopy

Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy or vibrational spectroscopy) is the measurement of the interaction of infrared radiation with matter by absorption, emission, or reflection.

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Inorganic compound

An inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds⁠that is, a compound that is not an organic compound.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Ionic bonding

Ionic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that involves the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions, or between two atoms with sharply different electronegativities, and is the primary interaction occurring in ionic compounds.

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Iron pentacarbonyl

Iron pentacarbonyl, also known as iron carbonyl, is the compound with formula.

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Iron sulfide

Iron sulfide or Iron sulphide can refer to range of chemical compounds composed of iron and sulfur.

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Iron-sulfur protein

Iron–sulfur proteins are proteins characterized by the presence of iron–sulfur clusters containing sulfide-linked di-, tri-, and tetrairon centers in variable oxidation states.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Isotopes of fluorine

Fluorine (9F) has 18 known isotopes ranging from to (with the exception of) and two isomers (and). Only fluorine-19 is stable and naturally occurring in more than trace quantities; therefore, fluorine is a monoisotopic and mononuclidic element.

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Isotopes of hydrogen

Hydrogen (1H) has three naturally occurring isotopes, sometimes denoted,, and.

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Isotopes of phosphorus

Although phosphorus (15P) has 22 isotopes from 26P to 47P, only 31P is stable; as such, phosphorus is considered a monoisotopic element.

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Isotopes of platinum

Naturally occurring platinum (78Pt) consists of five stable isotopes (192Pt, 194Pt, 195Pt, 196Pt, 198Pt) and one very long-lived (half-life 4.83×1011 years) radioisotope (190Pt).

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley (24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, liberal political theorist.

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Krypton

Krypton (from translit 'the hidden one') is a chemical element; it has symbol Kr and atomic number 36.

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Krypton difluoride

Krypton difluoride, KrF2 is a chemical compound of krypton and fluorine.

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Lanthanide

The lanthanide or lanthanoid series of chemical elements comprises at least the 14 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–70, from lanthanum through ytterbium.

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Lanthanum

Lanthanum is a chemical element; it has symbol La and atomic number 57.

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Lewis acids and bases

A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct.

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Ligand

In coordination chemistry, a ligand is an ion or molecule with a functional group that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.

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Lipophilicity

Lipophilicity (from Greek λίπος "fat" and φίλος "friendly") is the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene.

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Liquid nitrogen

Liquid nitrogen (LN2) is nitrogen in a liquid state at low temperature.

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Lithium

Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.

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Lithium aluminium hydride

Lithium aluminium hydride, commonly abbreviated to LAH, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula or.

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Lone pair

In chemistry, a lone pair refers to a pair of valence electrons that are not shared with another atom in a covalent bondIUPAC Gold Book definition: and is sometimes called an unshared pair or non-bonding pair.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Magnesium chloride

Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Magnetic coupling

A magnetic coupling is a component which transfers torque from one shaft to another using a magnetic field, rather than a physical mechanical connection.

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Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.

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Materials science

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.

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Mössbauer spectroscopy

Mössbauer spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique based on the Mössbauer effect.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Medicinal chemistry

Medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacy involved with designing and developing pharmaceutical drugs.

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Meissner effect

The Meissner effect (or Meißner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Mesoscopic physics

Mesoscopic physics is a subdiscipline of condensed matter physics that deals with materials of an intermediate size.

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Metal carbonyls are coordination complexes of transition metals with carbon monoxide ligands.

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In inorganic chemistry, metal–metal bonds describe attractive interactions between metal centers.

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Methyl group

In organic chemistry, a methyl group is an alkyl derived from methane, containing one carbon atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms, having chemical formula (whereas normal methane has the formula). In formulas, the group is often abbreviated as Me.

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Methylmercury

Methylmercury (sometimes methyl mercury) is an organometallic cation with the formula.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mineral (nutrient)

In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.

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Mineralogy

Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.

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Molecular geometry

Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule.

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Molecular symmetry

In chemistry, molecular symmetry describes the symmetry present in molecules and the classification of these molecules according to their symmetry.

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Molybdenum hexacarbonyl

Molybdenum hexacarbonyl (also called molybdenum carbonyl) is the chemical compound with the formula Mo(CO)6.

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Molybdenum(II) chloride

Molybdenum dichloride describes chemical compounds with the empirical formula MoCl2.

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N-Butyllithium

n-Butyllithium C4H9Li (abbreviated n-BuLi) is an organolithium reagent.

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Nanocluster

Nanoclusters are atomically precise, crystalline materials most often existing on the 0-2 nanometer scale.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).

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Noble gas compound

In chemistry, noble gas compounds are chemical compounds that include an element from the noble gases, group 18 of the periodic table.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique based on re-orientation of atomic nuclei with non-zero nuclear spins in an external magnetic field.

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Octet rule

The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas.

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Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.

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Organic compound

Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Organic synthesis

Organic synthesis is a branch of chemical synthesis concerned with the construction of organic compounds.

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Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and sometimes broadened to include metalloids like boron, silicon, and selenium, as well.

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Oxide

An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Paramagnetism

Paramagnetism is a form of magnetism whereby some materials are weakly attracted by an externally applied magnetic field, and form internal, induced magnetic fields in the direction of the applied magnetic field.

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Peptide

Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.

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Permanganate

A permanganate is a chemical compound with the manganate(VII) ion,, the conjugate base of permanganic acid.

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Phase (matter)

In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of material that is chemically uniform, physically distinct, and (often) mechanically separable.

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Phosphate

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Pigment

A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.

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Point groups in three dimensions

In geometry, a point group in three dimensions is an isometry group in three dimensions that leaves the origin fixed, or correspondingly, an isometry group of a sphere.

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Polarizability

Polarizability usually refers to the tendency of matter, when subjected to an electric field, to acquire an electric dipole moment in proportion to that applied field.

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Polyphosphate

A polyphosphate is a salt or ester of polymeric oxyanions formed from tetrahedral PO4 (phosphate) structural units linked together by sharing oxygen atoms.

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Portland cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.

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Potassium manganate

Potassium manganate is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.

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Reaction mechanism

In chemistry, a reaction mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical reaction occurs.

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Reagent

In chemistry, a reagent or analytical reagent is a substance or compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction, or test if one occurs.

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Reduction potential

Redox potential (also known as oxidation / reduction potential, ORP, pe, E_, or E_) is a measure of the tendency of a chemical species to acquire electrons from or lose electrons to an electrode and thereby be reduced or oxidised respectively.

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral).

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Scandium

Scandium is a chemical element; it has symbol Sc and atomic number 21.

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Schlenk line

The Schlenk line (also vacuum gas manifold) is a commonly used chemistry apparatus developed by Wilhelm Schlenk.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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Silicone

In organosilicon and polymer chemistry, a silicone or polysiloxane is a polymer composed of repeating units of siloxane (where R.

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.

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Sodium hydroxide

Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Solid-state chemistry

Solid-state chemistry, also sometimes referred as materials chemistry, is the study of the synthesis, structure, and properties of solid phase materials.

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Solubility

In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent.

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Solution (chemistry)

In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.

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Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.

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Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry is the relationship between the weights of reactants and products before, during, and following chemical reactions.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Sulfur dioxide

Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.

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Surface science

Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid–gas interfaces.

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Surfactant

Surfactants are chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or a liquid and a solid.

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Symmetry group

In group theory, the symmetry group of a geometric object is the group of all transformations under which the object is invariant, endowed with the group operation of composition.

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Tetrahydrofuran

Tetrahydrofuran (THF), or oxolane, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2)4O.

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Tetrasulfur tetranitride

Tetrasulfur tetranitride is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Titanium tetrachloride

Titanium tetrachloride is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Titanium(III) chloride

Titanium(III) chloride is the inorganic compound with the formula TiCl3.

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Transmetalation (alt. spelling: transmetallation) is a type of organometallic reaction that involves the transfer of ligands from one metal to another.

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Triiron dodecacarbonyl

Triiron dodecarbonyl is the organoiron compound with the formula Fe3(CO)12.

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Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0)

Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) or is an organopalladium compound.

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Tungsten hexacarbonyl

Tungsten hexacarbonyl (also called tungsten carbonyl) is an organometallic compound with the formula W(CO)6.

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Tungsten hexafluoride

Tungsten(VI) fluoride, also known as tungsten hexafluoride, is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy

Ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy or ultraviolet–visible (UV–VIS) spectrophotometry refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflectance spectroscopy in part of the ultraviolet and the full, adjacent visible regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Valence electron

In chemistry and physics, valence electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outermost shell is not closed.

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Vanadium(V) oxide

Vanadium(V) oxide (vanadia) is the inorganic compound with the formula V2O5.

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VSEPR theory

Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory is a model used in chemistry to predict the geometry of individual molecules from the number of electron pairs surrounding their central atoms.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography is the experimental science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract in specific directions.

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Xenon

Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54.

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Xenon hexafluoride

Xenon hexafluoride is a noble gas compound with the formula XeF6.

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Xenon trioxide

Xenon trioxide is an unstable compound of xenon in its +6 oxidation state.

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Yttrium

Yttrium is a chemical element; it has symbol Y and atomic number 39.

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Yttrium barium copper oxide

Yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) is a family of crystalline chemical compounds that display high-temperature superconductivity; it includes the first material ever discovered to become superconducting above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen at about.

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References

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