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carbon group
noun
The vertical group of the periodic table containing carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead; the elements have a valence of 4, and show the typical gradation from nonmetal to metal
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Reference has been made to some of the physical properties of the carbon group elements.
The carbon group elements (Group 14), with four electrons, occupy a middle position.
In all other aldehydes, the carbonyl group is bonded to one hydrogen and one carbon group.
"We wanted to create the ultimate sustainable building," says professor John French, CEO of the Adapt Low Carbon Group which commissioned the building and shepherded its construction.
The properties of the carbon group elements and those of their compounds are intermediate between properties associated with the elements of the adjacent boron and nitrogen groups.
The ground-state electronic configurations of atoms of these carbon group elements show that each has four electrons in its outermost shells.
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In the above examples of sulfonium salts, sulfur is bonded to three carbon groups, but sulfonium salts are known in which one or more of the carbon groups are replaced by other elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, or a halogen.
Like sulfoxides, sulfonium and oxosulfonium salts are chiral and can be isolated in optically active form if the attached carbon groups are all different, as in RR′R″S+ and RR′R″S =O)+.
The proton, ion, and carbon groups had about 34% to 39% less spongy tissue than did controls.
The surfaces of the two kinds of activated carbons contain the same type of carbon groups.
In this study, there was also a decrease in the concentration of light carbon groups, such as the C6 C11 groups.
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