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What does covalent mean?

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  1. (chemistry) Containing or characterized by a covalent bond.
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In this paper, we synthesized a covalent dimer of alamethicin that was N-terminally linked by a disulfide bond.
Reactions of non-metallic elements to form covalent compounds are atom transfer reactions.
The polymer moieties have a valence orbital bond to the carbonaceous particulate, such as an ionic or covalent bond.
The C-Cl bond is polar covalent, Na-Cl is ionic, and the C-C bond is pure covalent with each atom sharing the bonding electrons equally.
In a covalent diatomic molecule, a difference in the electronegativity of the atoms will result in a dipole moment.
Bovine SP-B occurs also as covalent trimer, and oligomeric forms of ovine SP-B have been described.

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