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dangling bond

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dangling bond [¦daŋ·gliŋ ′bänd]
(solid-state physics)
A chemical bond associated with an atom in the surface layer of a solid that does not join the atom with a second atom but extends in the direction of the solid's exterior.


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To detect the spin of a single electron, Rugar and several colleagues prepared a piece of quartz with a smattering of so-called dangling bonds.
But if you took it apart and put hydrogen atoms on the dangling bonds to stabilize it, you'd have a chemical compound that we call a buckybowl.
The role of dangling bonds and antisite effects (anion-on-cation site) is also discussed.
 
 
 
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