Transferability (chemistry)

This page is about transferability in chemistry. Transferability (economics) is a separate topic.

Transferability, in chemistry, is the assumption that a chemical property that is associated with an atom or a functional group in a molecule will have a similar (but not identical) value in a variety of different circumstances.[1] Examples of transferable properties include:

Transferable properties are distinguished from conserved properties, which are assumed to always have the same value whatever the chemical situation, e.g. relative atomic mass.

References

  1. "Transferability". Compendium of Chemical Terminology.


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