chemical structure

English

Noun

chemical structure (plural chemical structures)

  1. (chemistry) The arrangement of chemical bonds between atoms in a molecule (or in an ion or radical with multiple atoms), specifically which atoms are chemically bonded to what other atoms with what kind of chemical bond, together with any information on the geometric shape of the molecule needed to uniquely identify the type of molecule.
  2. (chemistry) A graphical representation of such an arrangement.
Chemical structure (definition 2) of a P4O10 molecule
attempting to show three-dimensional geometry		Simplified representation of the chemical structure
of a chlorin molecule in which chemical symbols
for carbon and hydrogen atoms are not explicitly shown
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