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Diamagnetism
Chemistry; General chemistry
Diamagnetic materials are very weakly repelled by magnetic fields. The atoms or molecules of diamagnetic materials contain no unpaired spins .
Matter
Chemistry; General chemistry
Matter is anything that has mass. Air, water, coffee, fire, human beings, and stars are matter. Light, X-rays, photons, gravitons, information, and love aren't matter.
Standard reduction potential
Chemistry; General chemistry
The voltage associated with a reduction process at standard state . The reduction potential of 2H+(aq, 1M) + 2 e- H2(g, 1 atm) is taken as exactly zero volts.
Bond strength
Chemistry; General chemistry
Some measure of how difficult it is to break a chemical bond , for example, a bond energy or a bond enthalpy .
Polydentate
Chemistry; General chemistry
A ligand that has more than one atom that coordinates directly to the central atom in a complex. Polydentate ligands are called chelating agents when two or more coordinating atoms are attached to ...
Ab initio
Chemistry; General chemistry
Ab initio is Latin for "from first principles". Ab initio refers to predictions or calculations which are based entirely on theory as opposed to experimentation.
Diamond
Chemistry; General chemistry
A crystalline form of carbon , made of a network of covalent, tetrahedrally bound carbon atoms.
