Questions tagged [definitions]

This answer on a question regarding whether water is corrosive in pure form, the author implies that "reactive" and "corrosive" are the same thing (at least with water.) "Corrode" seems to mean irreparably damaged which also seems to imply a…

I'm confused about the definition of "charge separation" in the context of resonance structures. One of the rules of stability of resonance structure is "the structure with least separation of formal charge is more stable". Does "separation" in this…