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isomeric

isomeric

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Having the same atoms arranged in a different way
  • adjective
  • /ˌaɪsəˈmɛrɪk/
  • Specialized
: isomérico
  • Isomeric compounds can have the same molecular formula but different structural arrangements.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, chromatographic methods, as well as tandem MS experiments, have provided means to distinguish highly complex isomeric glycans, a determinant step to establish accurate structure-function relationships.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The isomeric material, bound to a ligand compound, was injected intravenously.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Any other questions on IT as an isomeric transition or internal conversion or OJ?

  • The isomeric half-lives ranged from 10 ns to 1 ms.

    Academic text (2006)
  • So a lot of alpha decays are immediately followed by a chain of gamma decays or what we call ITS or isomeric transitions.

  • What I had in mind was confronting the girls with an isomeric quandary of Marty Feldman.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • In this way, Caamao and company identified 11 new isomeric states of neutron-rich nuclides with mass numbers from 188 to 203.

    Academic text (2006)
  • If the star is hot enough (above 10^9 K), excitation and de-excitation of nuclei by thermal photons will yield an equilibrium mixture of the ground and isomeric states.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Chemists study isomeric forms to understand how different structures affect the properties of substances.

  • The two isomeric configurations resulted in significantly different physical and chemical behaviors.

Surface Forms

isomeric positive

Morphology

isomeric = isomer (transparent) = isomer + ic

Formed by the regular adjective-forming suffix '-ic' added to the noun 'isomer', yielding 'relating to isomers'.

Etymology

Isomeric comes from the Greek parts iso- ('equal') and meros ('part') — the same 'mer' you see in polymer — so it literally means 'equal parts'. That's why isomeric describes molecules that have the same parts or formula but a different arrangement or shape.