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31interstitial site — octahedral and tetrahedral open spaces within a close packed arrangement of atoms or ions in which a cation can fit …
32clay mineral — any of a group of hydrous aluminum silicate minerals, as kaolinite, illite, and montmorillonite, that constitute the major portion of most clays. [1945 50] * * * Any of a group of important hydrous aluminum silicates with a layered structure and… …
33Crystal field theory — (CFT) is a model that describes the electronic structure of transition metal compounds, all of which can be considered coordination complexes. CFT successfully accounts for some magnetic properties, colours, hydration enthalpies, and spinel… …
34coordination compound — Chem. complex (def. 10). Also called coordination complex. * * * ▪ chemistry Introduction any of a class of substances with chemical structures in which a central metal atom is surrounded by nonmetal atoms or groups of atoms, called ligands… …
35d electron count — The d electron count is a chemistry formalism used to describe the electron configuration of the valence electrons of a transition metal center in a coordination complex.[1][2] The d electron count is an effective way to understand the geometry… …
36Spinel — General Category Oxide minerals Spinel group Chemical formula MgAl2O4 …
37Metal ions in aqueous solution — A metal ion in aqueous solution is a cation, dissolved in water, of chemical formula [M(H2O)n]z+. The solvation number, n, determined by a variety of experimental methods is 4 for Li+ and Be2+ and 6 for elements in rows 3 and 4 of the periodic… …
3824-cell — Schlegel diagram (vertices and edges) Type Convex regular 4 polytope Schläfli symbol {3,4,3} t …
39Clay minerals — Oxford Clay (Jurassic) exposed near Weymouth, England. Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations. Clays have structures similar to… …
40Triangulated category — A triangulated category is a mathematical category satisfying some axioms that are based on the properties of the homotopy category of spectra, and the derived category of an abelian category. A t category is a triangulated category with a t… …
