metallic bond

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   a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs

   Broaderchemical bond

Questions about metallic bond

What does metallic bond mean?

metallic bond means "a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs".

Is metallic bond a common word?

metallic bond 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.