polyatomic
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Origin of polyatomic
Vocabulary lists containing polyatomic
Chemistry - High School
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Understanding how many atoms move and interact inside laser-driven polyatomic molecules is essential for any attempt to guide chemical reactions using intense light.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025
For example, electrons or polyatomic gases in a magnetic field do behave this way.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
However, these polyatomic ions form ionic compounds by combining with ions of opposite charge.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
What are the electron-pair geometry and molecular structure of this polyatomic ion?
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
All such monosaccharides, being alcohol-aldehydes, can easily be reduced to the corresponding polyatomic alcohols, containing the same number of carbon atoms as the original monosaccharides, each with one OH group attached to it.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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