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- noun organic chemistry A
tetracyclic hydrocarbon whose structure is constantly changing between 1,209,600 possibletautomers
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from the nickname of one the scientists who predicted its properties in 1963 and the underlying concept of valence tautomerism, William "Bull" Doering. Chosen to rhyme with fulvalene.
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