hypervalency (English, noun)
expansion: hypervalency (usually uncountable, plural hypervalencies)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A higher than normal valency (typically involving a transfer of the electrons from the central (hypervalent) atom to the nonbonding molecular orbitals which it forms with (usually more electronegative) ligands)
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: hypervalencies
tags: plural