Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An atom or group substituted for another in a chemical compound.
- adjective Of or relating to such an atom or group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which substitutes; in chem., an atom or atomic group which takes the place of another atom or group present in the molecule of the original compound. Thus in the compounds methane (CH4) and methyl alcohol (CH3OH), OH is said to be the substituent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry any
atom , group, orradical substituted for another, or entering amolecule in place of some other part which is removed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Would the substituent fractions all have faced the same exact problems?
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The other contribution is the synthesis of liquid crystalline conjugated polymers by replacing the hydrogen atom bonded to polyacetylene with a substituent having liquid crystalline nature as the side chain.
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Deci, această secţiune este prezentat aici ca un substituent, un monument mici pentru a optimismul meu.
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My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
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Biogenesis becomes reproduction; re - production becomes cellular; cell division becomes mitotic; chromosomes split longitudinally, or put more accurately, they replicate themselves, since each new chromosome is no half-chromosome but a chromosome entire; and finally, the substituent elements of the chromosomes, whether visible chromatids or invisible genes, are held likewise to replicate themselves.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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The complementary substances or substituent groups with which these nuclei are more or less firmly combined in nature exert a stabilizing and perhaps otherwise favorable influence on the curative nucleus, but do not themselves possess the vitamine type of physiological potency.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino acids with the general formula H2NCHRCOOH, where R is an organic substituent.
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These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino acids with the general formula H2NCHRCOOH, where R is an organic substituent.
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These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino acids with the general formula H2NCHRCOOH, where R is an organic substituent.
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All alcohols carry a hydroxyl substituent (- OH), so they too have oxygen atoms in them.
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