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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A covalent chemical bond between two atoms that is produced when one atom shares a pair of electrons with another atom lacking such a pair.
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- noun chemistry A type of
covalent bond where the twoelectrons being shared originate from the sameatom ; adative bond . - noun chemistry One of the
bonds between thecentral metal atom of acoordination compound and itsligands .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a covalent bond in which both electrons are provided by one of the atoms
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