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| Kinetic energy | Energy resulting from the motion of masses. | |
| Ligand | In protein chemistry, a small molecule that is (or can be) bound by a larger molecule is termed a ligand. In organometallic chemistry, a moiety bonded to a central metal atom is also termed a ligand; the latter definition is more common in general chemistry. | |
| Linear | Aside from its geometric meaning, linear describes systems in which an output is directly proportional to an input. In particular, a linear elastic system is one in which the internal displacements are (at equilibrium) directly proportional to applied forces. | |
| London dispersion force | An attractive force caused by quantum-mechanical electron correlation. For example, a neutral spherical molecule (such as a single argon atom) has no charge and produces no external electric field, yet a pair of molecules has a distribution of electron configurations weighted toward those with lesser electron-electron repulsions; this creates a small net attraction. | |
| Lone pair | Two valence electrons of an atom that share an orbital but do not participate in a bond. | |
| Designed by E-spaces |  |
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