tetravalent
Adjective
Meaning
Having a valence of four; tetratomic; quadrivalent.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Carbon is tetravalent but carbon free radicals and carbenes occur as short-lived intermediates.
The material is a diamagnetic semiconductor and the Fe ions should be considered to be in a low spin divalent state (as shown by Mössbauer spectroscopy as well as XPS), rather than a tetravalent state as the stoichiometry would suggest.
In this system, the endpoints and intersections of each line represent one carbon, and hydrogen atoms can either be notated explicitly or assumed to be present as implied by tetravalent carbon.
It is nonmetallic and tetravalent —making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds.
Otherwise tetravalent lanthanides are rare.
The +3 state is the most stable, especially in solutions, while the tetravalent halides BkF 4 and Cs 2 BkCl 6 are only known in the solid phase.