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What does covalent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Containing or characterized by a covalent bond.
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In the present analysis, we seek to develop a method suitable for a broader range of chemical environments ranging from ionic to covalent.
Electronegativity can be used to predict whether a bond will be a nonpolar covalent bond, a polar covalent bond, or an ionic bond.
The covalent linkage of the chromophore by copolymerization with MMA does not significantly alter its photophysics.
In covalent halides, such as carbon tetrachloride, the bonding electrons are localized in the carbon-chlorine bonds of the individual molecules.
In this paper, we synthesized a covalent dimer of alamethicin that was N-terminally linked by a disulfide bond.
The polymer moieties have a valence orbital bond to the carbonaceous particulate, such as an ionic or covalent bond.

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