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
As with simple ionic compounds, these compounds must also be electrically neutral, so their formulas can be predicted by treating the polyatomic ions as discrete units.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Some compounds contain polyatomic ions; the names of common polyatomic ions should be memorized.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
All the other hexoses, whose structure is shown on pages 37 and 38, occur in plants only as constituents of the more complex saccharides, in glucoside-formations, or as the corresponding polyatomic alcohols.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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