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PRONUNCIATION OF TETRAVALENCE

tetravalence  [ˌtɛtrəˈveɪləns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TETRAVALENCE

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Tetravalence is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TETRAVALENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tetravalence

In chemistry, a tetravalence is the state of an atom with four electrons available for covalent chemical bonding in its valence. An example is methane: the tetravalent carbon atom forms a covalent bond with four hydrogen atoms. The carbon atom is called tetravalent because it forms 4 covalent bonds. A carbon atom has a total of six electrons occupying the first two shells, i.e., the K-shell has two electrons and the L-shell has four electrons. This distribution indicates that in the outermost shell there are one completely filled 's' orbital and two half-filled 'p' orbitals, showing carbon to be a divalent atom. But in actuality, carbon displays tetravalency in the combined state. Therefore, a carbon atom has four valence electrons. It could gain four electrons to form the C4- anion or lose four electrons to form the C4+ cation. Both these conditions would take carbon far away from achieving stability by the octet rule. To overcome this problem carbon undergoes bonding by sharing its valence electrons. This allows it to be covalently bonded to one, two, three or four carbon atoms or atoms of other elements or groups of atoms.

Definition of tetravalence in the English dictionary

The definition of tetravalence in the dictionary is the condition of having a valency of four. Other definition of tetravalence is the condition of having four valencies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TETRAVALENCE


bivalence
baɪˈveɪləns
covalence
kəʊˈveɪləns
dataveillance
ˈdeɪtəˌveɪləns
divalence
daɪˈveɪləns
hypervigilance
ˌhaɪpəˈvɪdʒɪləns
jubilance
ˈdʒuːbɪləns
monovalence
ˌmɒnəʊˈveɪləns
multivalence
ˌmʌltɪˈveɪləns
pentavalence
ˌpɛntəˈveɪləns
pestilence
ˈpɛstɪləns
polyvalence
ˌpɒlɪˈveɪləns
quadrivalence
ˌkwɒdrɪˈveɪləns
quinquevalence
ˌkwɪŋkwɪˈveɪləns
sibilance
ˈsɪbɪləns
silence
ˈsaɪləns
surveillance
sɜːˈveɪləns
trivalence
traɪˈveɪləns
univalence
ˌjuːnɪˈveɪləns
valence
ˈveɪləns
vigilance
ˈvɪdʒɪləns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TETRAVALENCE

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tetraspore
tetrasporic
tetrasporous
tetrastich
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tetrastichic
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tetrastyle
tetrasyllabic
tetrasyllabical
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tetravalency
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tetrazolium

WORDS THAT END LIKE TETRAVALENCE

ambivalence
at your convenience
benevolence
condolence
domestic violence
equivalence
excellence
flatulence
fraudulence
insolence
nonviolence
opulence
par excellence
prevalence
radio silence
somnolence
succulence
turbulence
ultraviolence
violence
virulence

Synonyms and antonyms of tetravalence in the English dictionary of synonyms

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tétravalence
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Tetravalence
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Vierwertigkeit
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4価
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TETRAVALENCE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETRAVALENCE»

Discover the use of tetravalence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tetravalence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Routledge French Technical Dictionary Dictionnaire technique ...
... tetrasulphide 12 (BrE) CHEM tetrasulfidem tetrathionicooÿ'CHEM tetrathionique tetratomicity 12 CHEM tetratomicite f tetravalence 12 CHEM tetravalence f tetravalency 12 CHEM tetravalence/ tetravalentoçzÿ'CHEM tetravalent tetrazene 12 ...
Yves Arden, 2013
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From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story
History indicates that Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892) discovered the tetravalence of carbon (and carbon–carbon bonding) simultaneously with and independently of Kekulé. His publication was delayed for technical reasons by his ...
Arthur Greenberg, 2006
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Functional and Smart Materials: Structural Evolution and ...
The smaller size of cations with tetravalence and a little larger size rare earth cations can be ordered so that the closest ... are separated into two types: trivalence and larger rare earth cation layers, and smaller tetravalence cation layers.
Zhong Lin Wang, Zhen Chuan Kang
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
... Cooper, Erlen- meyer, Frankland, Kolbe, Odling, Williamson — but the glorious guide in this great and victorious movement forward, he, to whose eyes was disclosed not only the tetravalence of carbon, but also the solutionof the problem of ...
‎1889
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The American journal of science
But since sulphur, selenium and tellurium show tetravalence, and since there is already ground for supposing the existence of tetravalence in oxygen, as, for example, the existence of Ag4O and HC1(CHs)sO, he proposes Chemistry and ...
‎1896
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Of Minds and Molecules : New Philosophical Perspectives on ...
However, the fact that some weakly emergent properties can be given a reductive explanation doesn't presuppose that whole theories or disciplines can be reduced. A stronger emergent property might be the tetravalence of carbon ( Schroder, ...
Nalini Bhushan Associate Professor of Philosophy Smith College, Stuart Rosenfeld Professor of Chemistry Smith College (deceased), 2000
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Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry
Then add seven hydrogens to complete the tetravalence of each carbon. 0 || CH,( |:HCH CH,(|:HCH0 CH3 or CH3 J Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned. or duplicated. in whole or in part, Due to  ...
Frederick Bettelheim, William Brown, Mary Campbell, 2012
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The Story of Chemistry
Plato Returns 387 H II A Molecular structure B 3-d Ball and stick model Figure 15.5 Benzene When Kekule proposed his theory of tetravalence of carbon atom in 1857-58, the same idea was expressed by Archibald Scott Couper (1831-1892 ).
N.C. Datta, 2005
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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
Terbium can sometimes exhibit the 3 ' t-> 4+ mixed valence behavior well-known for cerium, so perhaps that tendency to tetravalence destabilizes the structure. On the other hand EuBa2Cu3O6 + rt (Remmel et al. 1993) and YbBa2Cu3O6 + rt ...
Karl A. Gschneidner, LeRoy Eyring, G. H. Lander, 2001
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The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of ...
In any case the entire procedure has nothing at all to do with the tetravalence of carbon. Kekule also pointed out that even if Kolbe's argument were accepted, his own structure theory articles were published earlier than the installments of ...
Alan J. Rocke, 1993

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