ELECTRON SHELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electron shell mean? 

• ELECTRON SHELL (noun)
  The noun ELECTRON SHELL has 1 sense:

1. a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom

  Familiarity information: ELECTRON SHELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRON SHELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the chemical properties of an atom are determined by the outermost electron shell

Hypernyms ("electron shell" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

 Context examples 

Molecules or atoms with at least one unpaired or 'free' electron in the outermost electron shell.

(Free radical, NCI Thesaurus)

Free Radical Formation involves production in normal or pathological processes of chemically unstable, short half-life and highly reactive molecules carrying at least one unpaired or 'free' electron in the outermost electron shell.

(Free Radical Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

Free Radical Suppression involves interference with, or restraint of, production in normal or pathological processes of chemically unstable, short half-life and highly reactive molecules carrying at least one unpaired or 'free' electron in the outermost electron shell.

(Free Radical Suppression, NCI Thesaurus)

Free Radical Scavenging involves interference with, or restraint of, production, by ready combination with, chemically unstable, short half-life and highly reactive molecules carrying at least one unpaired or 'free' electron in the outermost electron shell.

(Free Radical Scavenging, NCI Thesaurus)

Agents of tissue damage through exposure to radiation, environment chemicals, and aging, reactive free radicals stabilize themselves by appropriating an electron from a nearby molecule and damaging that molecule by altering the electron number in its outermost electron shell.

(Free Radical Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemically unstable, free radicals stabilize themselves by appropriating an electron from a nearby molecule, thereby damaging that molecule by altering the electron number in its outermost electron shell.

(Free radical, NCI Thesaurus)

Appropriating electron(s) from a nearby molecule and damaging that molecule by altering the electron number in its outermost electron shell, Free Radicals produce tissue damage.

(Free Radical Formation, NCI Thesaurus)