chemical group

Questions about chemical group

What does chemical group mean?

chemical group means "(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule".

What is another word for chemical group?

Close synonyms include group, radical. 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 chemical group a common word?

chemical group 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.