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stereo-isomerism

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That kind of isomerism which is produced, not by a difference of order of connection between the atoms of the molecule, but by a difference in their arrangement in space: sometimes called geometrical isomerism. See stereo-isomer.

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