banana bond

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Etymology[edit]

From its shape, thought to resemble the fruit.

Noun[edit]

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banana bond (plural banana bonds)

  1. (informal, inorganic chemistry) An extended covalent bond found in boranes in which a hydrogen atom is shared by two boron atoms; a form of three-center two-electron bond.