banana bond

English

Etymology

From its shape, thought to resemble the fruit.

Noun

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.
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