Back سلسلية (كيمياء) Arabic শৃঙখল গঠন Bengali/Bangla Catenació Catalan بەیەکەوەبەسترانی زنجیرەیی CKB Katenace Czech Αλυσοποίηση Greek Catenación Spanish Katenaatio Finnish Caténation French Caitéanú Irish
In chemistry, catenation is the bonding of atoms of the same element into a series, called a chain.[1] A chain or a ring may be open if its ends are not bonded to each other (an open-chain compound), or closed if they are bonded in a ring (a cyclic compound). The words to catenate and catenation reflect the Latin root catena, "chain".
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st edition (1889) [http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/30197 s.v. 'chain', definition 4g