electropositive in a sentence
Examples
- The key is that concentrating atomic s character in orbitals directed towards electropositive substituents is more favorable than removing s character from orbitals directed towards electronegative substituents.
- Unlike the other noble gases ( except possibly xenon and radon ), oganesson is predicted to be sufficiently electropositive to form an Og Cl bond with chlorine.
- It had been found that to strengthen the current, it was most advantageous to drive the northerly electropositive electrode deeper into the medium than the southerly electrode.
- Mike Rowe, from Discovery Channel s Dirty Jobs series, subsequently witnessed and participated in a test using an electropositive metal within 24 hours after the discovery.
- The last two species, especially the superoxide, are rare and are formed only in reaction with very electropositive metals; these species contain oxygen-oxygen bonds.
- When a highly electropositive metal is combined with a highly electronegative nonmetal, the extra electrons from the metal atoms are transferred to the electron-deficient nonmetal atoms.
- The X position is an electropositive cation ( such as an alkali metal ), while the A is a monovalent anion and the B is a divalent anion.
- Cesium, however, has the benefit of being the most " electropositive " element known to physics, as well as being oblivious to temperature or atmospheric conditions.
- In July 2008 Richard Brill of NMFS / VIMS and SharkDefense both conducted more at-sea trials with electropositive metals in an effort to reduce shark bycatch in commercial fisheries.
- In 1819, on the heels of the invention of the voltaic pile, J�ns Jakob Berzelius developed a theory of chemical combination stressing the electronegative and electropositive characters of the combining atoms.