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born-haber cycle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables
born-haber -cy-cle
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cycle concerned with the formation of an ionic compound from the reaction of a metal (often a Group I or Group II element) with a halogen or other non-metallic element such as oxygen; used to analyze reaction energies.

Etymology

Named after the German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1919.

Inflected Forms

Born-Haber cycles (plural)

Questions

What does born-haber cycle mean?
A cycle concerned with the formation of an ionic compound from the reaction of a metal (often a Group I or Group II element) with a halogen or other non-metallic element such as oxygen; used to analyze reaction energies.
Where does born-haber cycle come from?
Named after the German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1919.

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