tetrahedral angle

  • 1Tetrahedral angle — Tetrahedral Tet ra*he dral, a. [See {Tetrahedron}.] 1. Having, or composed of, four sides. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) (a) Having the form of the regular tetrahedron. (b) Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of hemihedral… …

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  • 2tetrahedral angle — noun : a polyhedral angle of four faces …

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  • 3Tetrahedral — Tet ra*he dral, a. [See {Tetrahedron}.] 1. Having, or composed of, four sides. [1913 Webster] 2. (Crystallog.) (a) Having the form of the regular tetrahedron. (b) Pertaining or related to a tetrahedron, or to the system of hemihedral forms to… …

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  • 4Tetrahedral molecular geometry — In a Tetrahedral molecular geometry a central atom is located at the center with four substituents that are located at the corners of a tetrahedron. The bond angles are cos−1(−1/3) ≈ 109.5° when all four substituents are the same, as in CH4. This …

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  • 5tetrahedral — adjective Date: 1794 1. being a polyhedral angle with four faces 2. relating to, forming, or having the form of a tetrahedron • tetrahedrally adverb …

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  • 6Bürgi-Dunitz angle — The Bürgi Dunitz angle describes the angle of attack of a nucleophile at a carbonyl center. The angle was named after H. B. Bürgi and J.D. Dunitz, its principal investigators. The Bürgi Dunitz angle depends not upon the nature of the nucleophile… …

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  • 7Binary tetrahedral group — In mathematics, the binary tetrahedral group is an extension of the tetrahedral group T of order 12 by a cyclic group of order 2.It is the binary polyhedral group corresponding to the tetrahedral group, and as such can be defined as the preimage… …

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  • 8Solid angle — The solid angle, Ω , is the angle in three dimensional space that an object subtends at a point. It is a measure of how big that object appears to an observer looking from that point. For instance, a small object nearby could subtend the same… …

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  • 9Bite angle — Chelate bite angle is a geometric parameter used to classify chelating ligands in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Together with ligand cone angle, this parameter is relevant to diphosphine ligands, which are used in industrial processes… …

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  • 10Tetrahedron — For the academic journal, see Tetrahedron (journal). Regular Tetrahedron (Click here for rotating model) Type Platonic solid Elements F = 4, E = 6 V = 4 (χ = 2) Faces by s …

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