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Which terms related to chemical bonding were introduced by Irving Langmuir rather than Gilbert N. Lewis?
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While Gilbert N. Lewis developed the foundational model of the electron-pair bond, the American chemist Irving Langmuir was responsible for popularizing and elaborating upon this work between 1919 and 1921. In the process of refining these concepts, Langmuir introduced several terms that are now standard in chemistry, most notably:1
- Covalent (or covalence)12
- Octet rule1