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  2. Sulfur dioxide - Wikipedia

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    Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula S O 2.It is a colorless gas with a pungent smell that is responsible for the odor of burnt matches.

  3. Formal charge - Wikipedia

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    Formal charges in ozone and the nitrate anion. In chemistry, a formal charge (F.C. or q*), in the covalent view of chemical bonding, is the hypothetical charge assigned to an atom in a molecule, assuming that electrons in all chemical bonds are shared equally between atoms, regardless of relative electronegativity.

  4. Orders of magnitude (charge) - Wikipedia

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    The elementary charge e, i.e. the negative charge on a single electron or the positive charge on a single proton [3] 10 −18: atto-(aC) ~ 1.8755 × 10 −18 C: Planck charge [4] [5] 10 −17: 1.473 × 10 −17 C (92 e) – Positive charge on a uranium nucleus (derived: 92 x 1.602 × 10 −19 C) 10 −16: 1.344 × 10 −16 C: Charge on a dust ...

  5. Interface force field - Wikipedia

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    A major obstacle was the poor definition of atomic charges in molecular models, especially for inorganic compounds, due to reliance on quantum chemistry calculations and partitioning methods that may be suitable for field-based but not for point-based charge distributions necessary in force fields.

  6. Energy minimization - Wikipedia

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    In the field of computational chemistry, energy minimization (also called energy optimization, geometry minimization, or geometry optimization) is the process of finding an arrangement in space of a collection of atoms where, according to some computational model of chemical bonding, the net inter-atomic force on each atom is acceptably close to zero and the position on the potential energy ...

  7. Oxidation state - Wikipedia

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    As an example, summing bond orders in the ammonium cation yields −4 at the nitrogen of formal charge +1, with the two numbers adding to the oxidation state of −3: The sum of oxidation states in the ion equals its charge (as it equals zero for a neutral molecule). Also in anions, the formal (ionic) charges have to be considered when nonzero.

  8. Liquid junction potential - Wikipedia

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    The liquid junction potential interferes with the exact measurement of the electromotive force of a chemical cell, so its effect should be minimized as much as possible for accurate measurement.

  9. Charge ordering - Wikipedia

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    Charge ordering (CO) is a (first- or second-order) phase transition occurring mostly in strongly correlated materials such as transition metal oxides or organic conductors. Due to the strong interaction between electrons, charges are localized on different sites leading to a disproportionation and an ordered superlattice .