Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chemistry) not cyclic; having no rings of atoms within the molecular structure; having an open chain structure. Opposite of
cyclic .
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- adjective organic chemistry Having carbon atoms arranged in a
linear rather thancyclical chain .
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- adjective having an open chain structure
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Examples
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My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels tanita davis 2008
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My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.
Archive 2008-09-01 a. fortis 2008
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- Medicine, treatment by dieting. adj. - pertaining to fat; Chemistry, applied to group of organic compounds, including the fats, having open-chain structure. adj. - (number) not dividing exactly into another number; not aliquot.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.
Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog TadMack 2008
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PBPs are a distinctively colored group of disk-shaped macromolecular proteins bearing covalently attached open-chain tetrapyrroles, known as phycobilins, orderly assembled into PBsomes.
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