scorpionates

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A form of scorpionate — Being tridentate, so as to bind to a metal in a fac manner (or facial; said of an isomer when three of its ligands, when identical, occupy one face of an octahedron).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of scorpionate
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