monopnictide

English

Etymology

mono- +‎ pnictide

Noun

monopnictide (plural monopnictides)

  1. (chemistry) Any pnictide that has a single pnictogen atom per molecule or unit cell.
    • 2016, Frank Arnold, Marcel Naumann, Shu-Chun Wu, Yan Sun, Marcus Schmidt, Horst Borrmann, Claudia Felser, Binghai Yan, Elena Hassinger, “Chiral Quasiparticles at the Fermi Surface of the Weyl Semimetal TaAs”, in arXiv‎:
      Unlike the other members of the non-centrosymmetric monopnictides, TaAs is the first Weyl semimetal candidate with the Fermi energy suffciently close to both types of Weyl points to generate chiral quasiparticles at the Fermi surface..
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