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- noun Plural form of
synthesis .
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Examples
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At the same time, the yield for each individual step is increased to 99.5% or better, a goal which cannot be achieved with conventional methods, but which is extremely important in syntheses involving a large number of steps.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984 - Presentation Speech 1984
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We had to resort to doubtful hypotheses; it was usually assumed that the syntheses were a direct reversal of the well-known breakdown reactions.
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In his mature work, Deleuze argues for an “impersonal and pre-individual” transcendental field in which the subject as identity pole which produces empirical identities by active synthesis is itself the result or product of differential passive syntheses (for instance, in what Deleuze calls the syntheses of habit, we find bodily, desiring, and unconscious
Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008
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I believe truly that policy is better because of the tensions, battles and syntheses that resulted from their genesis and work.
Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate? Christopher Sabatini 2011
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I believe truly that policy is better because of the tensions, battles and syntheses that resulted from their genesis and work.
Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate? Christopher Sabatini 2011
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In earlier methods each intermediate in the synthesis had to be isolated, which resulted in a drastic drop in yield in syntheses involving a large number of consecutive steps.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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In this reaction, which was developed already in 1928, organic compounds containing two double bonds ( "dienes") can effect the syntheses of many cyclic organic substances.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Only a “minuscule proportion of any population” is capable of such creative syntheses (Converse [1964] 2006, 8).
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In 1902 Emil Fischer, then in Berlin, was given the prize for "his work on sugar and purine syntheses".
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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One of the most impressive of the early syntheses was a group called the Theatre of the Eccentric Actor, which published hysterical manifestos hailing the "arse of Charlie Chaplin" and condemning to death the realist, high-society, "theatrical" film, proposing instead a combination of the circus and constructivism.
Marx at the movies 2011
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