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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In chem., a term proposed by Victor Meyer and Jacobsen, as a substitute for tautomerism, to signify an easily experienced shifting of the atoms in a molecule from one order of attachment to another, so that each of two isomeric substances readily changes into the other.

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