Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A class-name applied in organic chemistry to compounds containing the univalent thiophene radical —C4H3S.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The hypothetical radical C4H3S., regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.
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- noun organic chemistry, especially in combination A univalent radical derived from
thiophene
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The remarkable influence of M2δ to thienyl π conjugation in oligothiophenes incorporating MM quadruple bonds, is Greek to me, that the abstract was impenetrable, and the paper itself was thoroughly incomprehensible.
Planet Atheism 2008
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