Sentence examples for octet from inspiring English sources
noun
A group or set of eight of something.
On Saturday, in the Championship programme's early kick off on a sunny south coast, two of the octet of hopefuls – Bournemouth and Middlesbrough – attempted to scalp each other.
Western notions of human rights are deemed out of place and unwanted, so the argument runs.The surviving octet of monarchies is strengthened by economic and strategic factors.
Even a knowledgeable lay audience has trouble keeping count of opus numbers, which may be why Mendelssohn's octet and Schubert's "Trout" quintet scored well: they are easy-to-remember one-offs.Audiences do change and learn over time Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" caused a riot when it was first performed a century ago but now draws the crowds.
In later years he played the less-demanding flugelhorn, rather than the trumpet, accompanied by the New Jazz Composers Octet.
Hypervalent compounds are very common and in general are no less stable than compounds that conform to the octet rule.
The stabilities of organometallic compounds follow certain empirical rules, among which the 18-electron rule is the analogue of the octet rule of main-group compounds.
Such compounds are called incomplete-octet compounds.
Indeed, it is exactly because the BF3 molecule has an incomplete-octet structure that it is so widely employed as a catalyst, for it can use the vacancies in the valence shell of the boron atom to form bonds to other atoms and thereby facilitate certain chemical reactions.
As a result the sonnets increased from 65 in the first edition to 352 in the Juromenha edition; the total number of poems, including sonnets, sextets, odes, octets, eclogues, elegies, and the Portuguese forms known as canções, redondilhas, motos, esparsas, and glosas had risen from 170 in the first edition to 593 by 1860.
Various octets, nonets, and other small ensembles soon followed suit, as did such West Coast-based quartets and quintets as those led by Mulligan, Chet Baker, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, and Chico Hamilton.
Such substances often are electron acceptors, but this is not always the case; carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen pentoxide (N2O5), for example, contain completed octets of electrons and, according to usual valence theory, cannot accept any more.
