supercage

plural supercages

1. chemistryA large cavity found in certain zeolites, in which various reactions may occur.

   Consequently, these partially unshielded cations create a very large electric fields extending into the supercage.

   2003, Scott M. Auerbach, Kathleen A. Carrado, Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology (page 60)

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   At loadings of less than one WO₃ per supercage the absorption edge is blue shifted from the bulk WO₃ band gap edge to 3.5 eV.

   2009, Stephen J. Lippard, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, volume 80, page 150