Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypervalent compound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-va-len-t -com-pound
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

7

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any compound which contains more than eight formally assignable electrons in a valence shell directly associated with the central atom in direct bonding with a number of ligands.

Inflected Forms

hypervalent compounds (plural)

Questions

What does hypervalent compound mean?: Any compound which contains more than eight formally assignable electrons in a valence shell directly associated with the central atom in direct bonding with a number of ligands.

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