How to Use double bond in a Sentence

double bond

noun
  • In a trans fat, the hydrogens transverse the double bond, and no kink forms.
    Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2014
  • Namely, while Delta-9 has what is known as a double bond on its ninth carbon atom, Delta-8 has one of its double bonds on the eighth — hence the names.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • All that separates them is the location of a double bond, found on the eighth carbon in delta-8 THC and the ninth carbon in delta-9.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 28 June 2021
  • But that modest change allows Z to form a triple hydrogen bond with T, which is more stable than the double bond that holds together A-T.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2021
  • The melting point of a fat is linked to its level of saturation — the number of single bonds versus double bonds in its fatty-acid chain.
    J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Mechanically injured plants release mostly (Z)-GLVs, isomers where the main chemical groups lie on the same side of a double bond.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2010
  • Incorporating his innovative use of aldehydes, which are organic compounds where a carbon atom shares a double bond with an oxygen atom, a single bond with a hydrogen atom, and a single bond with another atom to form the carbonyl group.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • In recent years investigators have developed photocatalysts that break the resistant double bond between carbon and oxygen in carbon dioxide.
    Javier Garcia Martinez, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2020

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