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covalent - definition and meaning
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adjective chemistry containing or characterized by a covalent bond
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Strong Bonds That Make Molecules A second kind of chemical bond, called covalent from the Latin, “of equal power”, produces stable molecules.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
Strong Bonds That Make Molecules A second kind of chemical bond, called covalent from the Latin, “of equal power”, produces stable molecules.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
Their attention is always moving, and their emotions are always covalent , that is, they're always feeling multiple things at the same time.
Archive 2009-10-25 2009
The bond which above all others had prevented a general application of the Berzelius theory is now commonly known as the covalent bond.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 - Presentation Speech 1964
Dichtel's strategy uses organic dye molecules assembled into a structure known as a covalent organic framework (COF).
Nano Tech Wire 2010
Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell, employed a strategy that uses organic dye molecules assembled into a structure known as a covalent organic framework (COF).
R&D Mag - News 2010
Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell, employed a strategy that uses organic dye molecules assembled into a structure known as a covalent organic framework (COF).
Newswise: Latest News 2010
It usually achieves its valence shell octet of electrons by 'covalent ' bonding, sharing electrons with other atoms, often with one or more other carbon atoms and one or more atoms of different elements also behaving as if they wanted to fill their own valence shells.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
Scripps University researchers have developed a "covalent " immunization method that allows for near-instantaneous immunity
Ethical Technology 2009
The two types of atoms bond together into a single structure by sharing the unpaired electrons in the outermost electron shells surrounding their nuclei - i.e., by 'covalent ' bonds.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
flowchainsensei commented on the word covalent
In the context of e.g. software and product development: means "taking into account the various needs of all stakeholder communities"
June 8, 2009
jdblack64 commented on the word covalent
covalent - The ability to form a bond in which two atoms share a pair of electrons.
Think of the middle part of a venn diagram. Covalent relationship - could be the relationship of two divorced parents bound by the committment to a child of the former marriage.
June 8, 2009
jdblack64 commented on the word covalent
covalent - The ability to form a bond in which two atoms share a pair of electrons.
Think of the middle part of a venn diagram. Covalent relationship - could be the relationship of two divorced parents bound by the committment to a child of the former marriage.
June 8, 2009