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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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The polymer moieties have a valence orbital bond to the carbonaceous particulate, such as an ionic or covalent bond.
The covalent linkage of the chromophore by copolymerization with MMA does not significantly alter its photophysics.
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 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 group III and IV elements, on the other hand, tend to form covalent halides.

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