English Explanatory Dictionary

hypervalent compound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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

Word forms

hypervalent compound hypervalent compounds
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