- metal cluster compound
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any compound in which two ot more metal atoms are bonded to one another
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coordination compound — Chem. complex (def. 10). Also called coordination complex. * * * ▪ chemistry Introduction any of a class of substances with chemical structures in which a central metal atom is surrounded by nonmetal atoms or groups of atoms, called ligands… … Universalium
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