chemical bond

British  

noun

1. a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons See also covalent bond electrovalent bond coordinate bond

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chemical bond Cultural  

1. Any rearrangement of electrons in two atoms that generates a force, causing the atoms to be bound to each other, forming a molecule. (See covalent bond and ionic bond.)

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Example Sentences

In the hMPV F protein, Zhu didn't find the same patch of repellant molecules -- instead, he used a strong chemical bond as a "brute force" solution to hold the protein together.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

The previously shared electrons undergo ultrafast changes during this process, and attosecond pulses made it possible for researchers to follow the real-time breaking of a chemical bond.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2023

AOR grabs pairs of electrons from an electrode and uses them to add an energy-rich chemical bond to a starting compound called propionate, converting it to propionaldehyde.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2023

One of the things we built in was this understanding of chemical bond angles and also evolutionary history using a process called multisequence alignment.

From Scientific American • Oct. 31, 2022

But since the linkages between the nucleotides involved only the phosphate and sugar groups, our assumption that the same type of chemical bond linked all the nucleotides together was not affected.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson