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  • noun uncountable, organic chemistry, especially in combination Two alkyl groups in a compound
  • noun countable, organic chemistry Any compound containing two alkyl groups

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  • Phthalate molecules are ring-shaped and composed of esters (dialkyl) of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid (Figure 1).

    Phthalates 2008

  • Their physical properties are determined by the length and branching of the dialkyl side chains.

    Phthalates 2008

  • This she began for part II Chemistry, working with H.M. Powell, as his first research student on thallium dialkyl halides, after a brief summer visit to Professor Victor Goldschmidt's laboratory in

    Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Biography 1972

  • The process of 'seeing' with X-rays was clearly more difficult to apply to such systems than my early reading of Bragg had suggested; it was with some hesitation that I began my first piece of research work with H.M. Powell on thallium dialkyl halides, substances remote from, yet curiously connected with, my later subjects for research.

    Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules 1964

  • What Brenda Eskenazi and colleagues did was examine the association between the organophosphate pesticides as measured by maternal urinary dialkyl phosphate metabolites during pregnancy and attention-related outcomes among the Mexican-American children at the age of 3.5 years and five years.

    foodconsumer.org 2010

  • On the nature of the fluorenone-based emission in oxidized poly (dialkyl-fluorene) s

    physicsworld.com: all content 2009

  • Gaggero, N.; Carrea, G.; Pasta, P.: A new enzymic enantioselec - tive synthesis of dialkyl sulfoxides catalyzed by monooxygenases.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows arab2000.forumpro.fr@slideshare.net(arab2000.forum 2009

  • In 2009, the dubious distinction of the "allergen of the year" was awarded to a group of chemicals most of us have never heard of: mixed dialkyl thioureas.

    Enviroblog 2009

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