What does DB stand for?

Dangling Bond (chemistry)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

To detect the spin of a single electron, Rugar and several colleagues prepared a piece of quartz with a smattering of so-called dangling bonds.

Feel the force: magnetic probe finds lone electron

But if you took it apart and put hydrogen atoms on the dangling bonds to stabilize it, you'd have a chemical compound that we call a buckybowl.

BUCKYBOWLS by the Bucketful

The role of dangling bonds and antisite effects (anion-on-cation site) is also discussed.

WJ Communications Research Scientist to Present at 19th Reliability ...

These dangling bonds allow the electrons to return to their original state without emitting light, so the luminescence disappears, says Collins.

Light, chemicals modify silicon's glow

One element of the sheet forms a pentagon instead of a hexagon, and the sheet curves to allow two of the dangling bonds to attach to each other (see illustration).

Tracking an elusive carbon: scientists suspect a 'Third Man' molecule ...