dielemental
adjEtymology From di- (“two”) + elemental.
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Synonym of bielemental (“having two different elements, in various senses”).
- Previously, similar dielemental ion species of Cr had been observed corresponding to Cr₂O₄F₄⁺, Cr₂O₄Cl₃⁺, Cr₂O₄F₂Cl⁺ and Cr₂O₄FCl₂⁺.1961, Annual Summary Research Report of Chemistry, Engineering, Metallurgy, Physics and Reactor Divisions, Ames Laboratory, page 35:
- Braidwood describes their practitioners as living 'in a completely dielemental catch-as-catch-can state, as small predatory bands of food-collectors'.1977, Jack Golson, The Ladder of Social Evolution, Sydney University Press for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, →ISBN, page 8:
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- The uranyl ion, UO₂⁺², is one of the most stable dielemental moieties known.1983, Modification of Polymers, Plenum Press, →ISBN, page 211: