trigonal

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In typical alkenes, the carbons adopt a trigonal planar geometry, creating a flat structure around the double bond.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

They believed the reason trigonal chloride electrolytes can achieve low ionic conductivity is based on the variation of metal ion arrangements within the structure.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

The carbon atom is surrounded by three regions of electron density, positioned in a trigonal planar arrangement.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Each carbon atom in ethene, commonly called ethylene, has a trigonal planar structure.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The horns are trigonal, laterally compressed and knotted on the upper edge.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage