Power law relationships between bond length, bond strength and electron density distributions

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 585-590

  Gibbs, G V ^a   Hill, F C ^a   Boisen, M B ^a   Downs, R T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDING; ELECTRON; POWER LAW;

EID: 0032467279     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002690050151     Document Type: Article

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