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Ambient vs Ambident - What's the difference?

ambient | ambident |


As adjectives the difference between ambient and ambident

is that ambient is encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping while ambident is (chemistry) describing a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction.

As a noun ambient

is something that surrounds.