frontier orbital

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chem the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties

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Words nearby frontier orbital

frontenis, fronter, front foot, front four, frontier, frontier orbital, frontiersman, frontierswoman, frontis, frontispiece, frontlash

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How to use frontier orbital in a sentence

Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation say everyone should use it.
The Attack on the Hidden Internet|Marc Rogers|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These companies include SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and more.
Luxembourg and China Team Up on Private Mission to the Moon|Matthew R. Francis|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A cousin took me to the National Frontier Trail Museum, where I jotted down dutiful notes.
Those Kansas City Blues: A Family History|Katie Baker|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She went ahead and flew on Frontier Flight 1143 from Cleveland back to Dallas.
Ebola Nurses Are As Brave As Soldiers|Michael Daly|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Nothing but watch, that is, and prevent Kurdish reinforcements from crossing the frontier to help defend Kobani.
Kobani is Falling to ISIS in Syria. Kurd Protests Explode in Turkey.|Jamie Dettmer|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
He was long engaged in sanguinary war with the Turks and the French, who pillaged and destroyed his frontier towns.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Next morning Rome rang with the affair; by noon all three Englishmen were safely over the frontier.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The wild frontier life had drawn him in and under, as in a whirlpool; but he was New Englander yet at heart.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Ten victories would not cost as much as the first week's march towards the frontier.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various