electropositive in a sentence
Examples
- Presl also created naming conventions for oxides where the electronegative component of the compound became the noun, and the electropositive component became an adjective.
- It is likely that electropositive metals are ineffective for deliberately stimulated ( chummed ) sharks, competitively feeding sharks, and shark " frenzies ".
- When an electric field is applied to a copper wire, the conduction of electrons accelerates towards the electropositive end, thereby creating a current.
- The hybridisation of bond orbitals is determined by Bent's rule : " Atomic s character concentrates in orbitals directed toward electropositive substituents ".
- As an alternative to electrowinning, the wanted metal can be isolated by using a molten alloy of an electropositive metal and a less reactive metal.
- Electronegative substituents prefer to rotate outwards, to the same side as the R substituent on the nitrogen, whereas electropositive substituents prefer to rotate inwards.
- A hydroxide attached to a strongly electropositive center may itself ionize, liberating a hydrogen cation ( H + ), making the parent compound an acid.
- Menningococcal type IV pili bind DNA through the minor pilin ComP via an electropositive stripe that is predicted to be exposed on the filament's surface.
- For example, the electropositive metals or semimetals soluble in tin's solid phase e . g . antimony or bismuth, which prevent the decomposition.
- Most perchlorate compounds, especially salts of electropositive metals such as sodium perchlorate or potassium perchlorate, are inert and are slow to react with organic compounds.