chelate compound

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   a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions

   Synonymschelate

   Broaderheterocyclic compound

Questions about chelate compound

What does chelate compound mean?

chelate compound means "a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions".

What is another word for chelate compound?

Close synonyms include chelate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chelate compound a common word?

chelate compound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.