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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having only one hydrogen ion to donate to a base in an acid-base reaction.

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  • adjective chemistry Having a single hydrogen atom; monobasic

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[mono– + prot(on) + –ic.]

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Examples

  • The paper describes a binary decision tree using presence or absence of SMARTS substructures to traverse the tree, allowing prediction of monoprotic molecules.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • The paper describes a binary decision tree using presence or absence of SMARTS substructures to traverse the tree, allowing prediction of monoprotic molecules.

    pKa prediction, or, how to convert a JCIM paper into Java Egon Willighagen 2008

  • HNO3 = monoprotic acid H2SO4 = diprotic acid H3PO4 = triprotic acid HC2H3O2 = monoprotic protic aka proton

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