chalcogen
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chalcogen (plural chalcogens)
(inorganic chemistry) Any element of group 16 of the periodic table: oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium or polonium.
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Also, chalcogen through-bonds can provide insight about the process of electron transfer.
In highly metal-rich metal chalcogenides, such as Lu 7 Te and Lu 8 Te have domains of the metal's crystal lattice containing chalcogen atoms.
Even though oxygen is a chalcogen, its chemical properties are different from those of other chalcogens.
Greenwood and Earnshaw, p. 240 Chalcogen compounds Gallium reacts with chalcogen elements (sometimes called the "oxygen family") only at relatively high temperatures.
Heavier chalcogen pnictides tend to form ribbon -like polymers instead of individual molecules.
One such chalcogen boride consists of two molecules of dimethyl sulfide attached to a boron-hydrogen molecule.