superalkali

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ alkali.

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Noun

superalkali (plural superalkalis)

1. (chemistry) Any material that has a very small electron affinity
   • 2016, Ambrish Kumar Srivastava, Neeraj Misra, “Competition between Alkalide Characteristics and Nonlinear Optical Properties in OLi3-M-Li3O (M=Li, Na and K) Complexes”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We have proposed a new class of alkalides by sandwiching alkali atoms (M) between two Li3O superalkali clusters at MP2/6-311++G(d,p) level.