Synonyms for "ligand"

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Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

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substance

Related terms

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coordination compound

derived

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backbonding ligandbidentate ligandbiligandbioligandbisligandbridging ligandcoligandcounterligandglycoligandheteroligandhomoligandimmunoligandinterligandintraligandligand field theoryligandable

Showing 16 of 37 words.

has context

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chemistrytypography

holonym

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complexligature

is a

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biochemical signaling objectchemical compoundchemical objectsubstancetangible thing

related to

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complexcoordination compoundfunctional groupionmolecule

Translations

33 translations across 29 languages.

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Arabic

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• ربيطة noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Bengali

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• লিগ্যান্ড noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Catalan

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• lligand noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Chinese Mandarin

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• 配體 /配体 noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Finnish

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• ligandi noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

French

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• ligand noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Galician

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• ligando noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

German

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• Ligand noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Hebrew

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• ליגנד noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Hungarian

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• ligandum noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Ido

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• ligando noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Indonesian

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• ligan noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Irish

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• liogann noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Italian

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• legante noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)
• ligando noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Japanese

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• リガンド noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)
• 配位子 noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Kazakh

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• лиганд noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Khmer

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• លីកង់ noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Korean

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• 리간드 noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Malay

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• ligan noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Persian

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• لیگاند noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Portuguese

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• ligando noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)
• ligante noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Russian

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• лига́нд noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Serbo-Croatian

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• ligàndi noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)
• лига̀нди noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Spanish

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• ligando noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Swedish

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• ligand noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Tamil

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• ஈந்தணைவி noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Thai

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• ลิแกนด์ noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Ukrainian

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• ліга́нд noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

Vietnamese

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• phối tử noun (something that binds to another chemical entity)

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