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  • adjective (Chemistry) not cyclic; having no rings of atoms within the molecular structure; having an open chain structure. Opposite of cyclic.

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  • adjective organic chemistry Having carbon atoms arranged in a linear rather than cyclical chain.

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  • adjective having an open chain structure

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  • My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.

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  • My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.

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  • - Medicine, treatment by dieting. adj. - pertaining to fat; Chemistry, applied to group of organic compounds, including the fats, having open-chain structure. adj. - (number) not dividing exactly into another number; not aliquot.

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  • The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France.

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  • PBPs are a distinctively colored group of disk-shaped macromolecular proteins bearing covalently attached open-chain tetrapyrroles, known as phycobilins, orderly assembled into PBsomes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

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