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  2. Target hardening - Wikipedia

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    Target hardening, also referred to simply as hardening when made clear by the context, is a term used by police officers, those working in security, and the military referring to the strengthening of the security of a building or installation in order to protect it in the event of attack or reduce the risk of theft.

  3. Chemical polarity - Wikipedia

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    Nonpolar bonds generally occur when the difference in electronegativity between the two atoms is less than 0.5; Polar bonds generally occur when the difference in electronegativity between the two atoms is roughly between 0.5 and 2.0; Ionic bonds generally occur when the difference in electronegativity between the two atoms is greater than 2.0

  4. Strengthening mechanisms of materials - Wikipedia

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    Theoretically, the strength of a material with no dislocations will be extremely high because plastic deformation would require the breaking of many bonds simultaneously. However, at moderate dislocation density values of around 10 7 -10 9 dislocations/m 2 , the material will exhibit a significantly lower mechanical strength.

  5. Chemical bond - Wikipedia

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    Non-polar covalent bonds in methane (CH 4). The Lewis structure shows electrons shared between C and H atoms. Covalent bonding is a common type of bonding in which two or more atoms share valence electrons more or less equally. The simplest and most common type is a single bond in which two atoms share two electrons.

  6. Bond hardening - Wikipedia

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    Bond hardening is a process of creating a new chemical bond by strong laser fields—an effect opposite to bond softening. However, it is not opposite in the sense that the bond becomes stronger, but in the sense that the molecule enters a state that is diametrically opposite to the bond-softened state.

  7. Non-covalent interaction - Wikipedia

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    The hydrophobic effect is the desire for non-polar molecules to aggregate in aqueous solutions in order to separate from water. [22] This phenomenon leads to minimum exposed surface area of non-polar molecules to the polar water molecules (typically spherical droplets), and is commonly used in biochemistry to study protein folding and other ...

  8. Cohesion (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The polarity is due to the electronegativity of the atom of oxygen: oxygen is more electronegative than the atoms of hydrogen, so the electrons they share through the covalent bonds are more often close to oxygen rather than hydrogen. These are called polar covalent bonds, covalent bonds between atoms that thus become oppositely charged. [1]

  9. Drying oil - Wikipedia

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    The "drying", hardening, or, more properly, curing of oils is the result of autoxidation, the addition of oxygen to an organic compound and the subsequent crosslinking. This process begins with an oxygen molecule (O 2 ) in the air inserting into carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds adjacent to one of the double bonds within the unsaturated fatty acid.