Meanings
adjectiveintershell (not comparable)
- not comparablenatural sciencesBetween shells.
"This cluster is unusual in that its outermost shell has fewer atoms than the underlying shell, and CO ligands bridge intershell metal atoms."
2007 September 21, Phil Szuromi, “Chemistry: Bigger with Platinum”, in Science 317, published 1651
nounintershell (plural intershells)
plural intershells
- astronomyThe layer between two stellar shells, particularly between the hydrogen and helium shells.
"In this inner portion of the intershell 13C and N are totally absent, but there is some 16O."
1981, A. Renzini, “Evolutionary Effects of Mass Loss in Low-Mass Stars”, in Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution, →ISBN, page 332
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
- Proto-Indo-European*skol-yeh₂
- Proto-Germanic*skaljō
- Proto-West Germanic*skallju
- Old Englishsċiell
- Middle Englishschelle
- Englishshell
- Englishintershell
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APA
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