molecular geometry

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meaningsofmolecularandgeometry

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molecular
adjective
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/məˈlek.jə.lər/us
/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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geometry
noun[U]
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/dʒiˈɒm.ə.tri/us
/dʒiˈɑː.mə.tri/
the area of mathematics relating to the study of space and the relationships between points, lines, curves, ...
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(Definition ofmolecularandgeometryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When coordinated their trigonal pyramidalmoleculargeometryresults in a smaller ligand cone angles than might be expected, making them appealing as ligands.
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Phosphoranes adopt a trigonal bipyramidalmoleculargeometrywith the two apical bonds longer than the three equatorial bonds.
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A lone pair of electrons resides on the sulfur atom giving it tetrahedralmoleculargeometryas for sp carbon.
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The molecule retains itsmoleculargeometryas the frontier orbital points in the direction of the missing hydrogen atom.
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The refractive index of a polymer is based on several factors which include polarizability, chain flexibility,moleculargeometryand the polymer backbone orientation.
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The work for which he is best known established the three-dimensionality ofmoleculargeometry.
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Themoleculargeometryof both rotamers can be obtained experimentally by high resolution infrared spectroscopy augmented with in silico work.
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Themoleculargeometrycan be different as a solid, in solution, and as a gas.
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In this compound each sodium atom has a distorted octahedralmoleculargeometrywith coordination to molybdenum atoms and water molecules.
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The trigonal prismatic geometry is unusual in that the vast majority of six-coordinate organometallic compounds adopt octahedralmoleculargeometry.
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Rhenium heptafluoride, the only characterized metal heptafluoride, is a low-melting molecular solid with pentagonal bipyramidalmoleculargeometry.
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In particular a linearmoleculargeometrywas conducive.
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Complexes that undergo dissociative substitution are often coordinatively saturated and often have octahedralmoleculargeometry.
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This effect can be used to studymoleculargeometryand motion.
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Sulfur hexafluoride (or any molecule with exact octahedralmoleculargeometry) also shares the same symmetry although the resemblance is not as similar.
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This type ofmoleculargeometryis found in norbornane systems such as dicyclopentadiene.
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Pyramidalization is a distortion of this molecular shape towards a tetrahedralmoleculargeometry.
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Themoleculargeometryin these compounds is tetrahedral and the bonding mode covalent.
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As stated above, rotation hardly influences themoleculargeometry.
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