| NOUN | phenomenon | chemical bond, bond | an electrical force linking atoms |
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| Meaning | An electrical force linking atoms. | |
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| Synonym | bond | |
| Narrower | 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 | |
| ionic bond, electrovalent bond, electrostatic 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 | |
| Broader | attraction, attractive force | The force by which one object attracts another |
| Spanish | enlace, enlace químico | |
| Catalan | enllaç químic | |
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