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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective External to a chemical ring structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Exocyclica; having an eccentric anus, as a clypeastroid or spatangoid seaurchin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry (of a cyclic compound) not forming part of, or not attached to the
ring
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Examples
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Formaldehyde also affects nucleic acids by forming adducts with exocyclic nitrogen atoms in nucleotides
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Formaldehyde also affects nucleic acids by forming adducts with exocyclic nitrogen atoms in nucleotides
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Formaldehyde also affects nucleic acids by forming adducts with exocyclic nitrogen atoms in nucleotides
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