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isomer
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) Any of two or more compounds with the same molecular formula but with different structure. 2 (context physics English) Any of two or more atomic nuclei with the same mass number and atomic number but with different radioactive ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight
Usage examples of isomer.
There was only one distillery, in orbit, with the facilities to selectively flip the isomers that produced the fascinating, distinctive taste of smoke whiskey.
Teller had returned to his office the morning after the conversion of the MANN, had routinely checked his files for corruption, and had found only a small change in the spatial simulation of a particular isomer he'd been investigating for antitumor activity.
Featured here was a new and admired strain, which had in addition been grown in ultraviolet light, converting some of the inert cannabinoids into the 1 Delta isomer.
I programmed it as a comparator of optical isomers for a first step in trying to detect where and how our instincts are imprinted on us.
I programmed it as a comparator of optical isomers for a first step in trying to detect where and how our instincts are imprinted on us.
It may well be -- I have believed so ever since I was fourteen years old -- that the elements are all isomers, differentiated by geometrical structure, electrical charge, or otherwise in precisely the same way as ozone from oxygen, red from yellow phosphorous, dextrose from ~laevulose, and a paraffin from a benzene of identical empirical formula.