monatomic in English

adjective
1
consisting of one atom.
Although the most common anion formed by oxygen is monatomic , oxygen can also form diatomic ions known as peroxides and superoxides (monovalent).
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1. For a monatomic ideal gas, γ = 5/3, and for a diatomic gas (such as nitrogen and oxygen, the main components of air) γ = 7/5.

2. Simple salts of the type M2X, where X is a monatomic anion, are not typically soluble in any solvent because they have a high lattice energy.

3. Buckminsterfullerene is a spherical fullerene that can be described as a planar monatomic graphite layer (graphene; Section 11.2.2), consisting of regular hexagons and regular pentagons, bent into a closed sphere

4. Maxwell observed that the specific heat capacity of H2 unaccountably departs from that of a diatomic gas below room temperature and begins to increasingly resemble that of a monatomic gas at cryogenic temperatures.