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CHEMICAL BOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An electrical force linking atoms
Synonyms:
bond; chemical bond
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("chemical bond" is a kind of...):
attraction; attractive force (the force by which one object attracts another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical bond"):
covalent bond (a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule)
cross-link; cross-linkage (a side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule)
hydrogen bond (a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond)
electrostatic bond; electrovalent bond; ionic bond (a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion)
metallic bond (a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs)
peptide bond; peptide linkage (the primary linkage of all protein structures; the chemical bond between the carboxyl groups and amino groups that unites a peptide)
