supercage

English

Etymology

super- +‎ cage

Noun

supercage (plural supercages)

  1. (chemistry) A large cavity found in certain zeolites, in which various reactions may occur.
    • 2003, Scott M. Auerbach, ‎Kathleen A. Carrado, ‎Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology (page 60)
      Consequently, these partially unshielded cations create a very large electric fields extending into the supercage.
    • 2009, Stephen J. Lippard, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry (volume 80, page 150)
      At loadings of less than one WO3 per supercage the absorption edge is blue shifted from the bulk WO3 band gap edge to 3.5 eV.
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