non-stoichiometric compound

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Noun

non-stoichiometric compound (plural non-stoichiometric compounds)

  1. (chemistry) Any chemical compound in which the number of atoms of each element is not expressible as the ratio of small integers; normally due to missing atoms in a solid state lattice.

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